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Boat unloading immigrants at Ellis Island, New York harbor – Antique Print

Boat unloading immigrants at Ellis Island, New York harbor, Meadville, Pa. [ and 4 other cities] : Keystone View Company, c1928. — historic photograph
Boat unloading immigrants at Ellis Island, New York harbor, Meadville, Pa. [ and 4 other cities] : Keystone View Company, c1928.. Historic photograph from the New York City collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with Boat unloading immigrants at Ellis Island, New York harbor, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Passengers crowd the deck of a boat unloading at Ellis Island in this stereograph, a card issued around 1928 by the Keystone View Company, which was based in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Ellis Island had served as the main federal inspection station for arrivals at the Port of New York since 1892, but by the later 1920s, after the 1924 immigration act set national quotas, the number of newcomers had dropped sharply. Cards like this were meant for a stereoscope, which fused two slightly offset photographs into one three-dimensional scene for home and classroom viewers.

Created / publishedMeadville, Pa. [ and 4 other cities] : Keystone View Company, c1928.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
GenreStereographs 1920-1930.Photographic prints 1920-1930.
NotesJ299155 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item.
SubjectsEllis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)--1920-1930. Emigration & immigration--Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,330 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-171935

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