Immigrants at Ellis Island – Historic Reproduction
(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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Immigrants at Ellis Island comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Immigrants at Ellis Island
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Ellis Island, in New York Harbor, was the main processing station for arriving immigrants at the port of New York from 1892 until 1954, and this glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection shows the kind of crowded arrival scene that made the island famous. The Bain News Service, a Manhattan picture agency, made and sold pictures like this one in the early twentieth century, and its negatives now sit in the Library of Congress. The record's title comes from the agency's own caption cards and is unverified, and the date is not recorded, so the exact day and the people shown are unknown. Viewers should note that the glass plate itself is a fragile, small-format record of a busy, often anxious passage through American immigration.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,203 × 3,750 px · prints to 17 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10046 |
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