Immigrants on an Atlantic Liner – Historic Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Immigrants on an Atlantic Liner. 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 on an Atlantic Liner
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Few pictures on this board show the crossing itself, and this one places its passengers aboard an Atlantic liner, not at the Ellis Island inspection line. The print was registered with the U.S. Copyright Office in December 1906, which is why a copy survives in the Library of Congress. In those years, most immigrants reached New York in the cheapest accommodation, the steerage decks below the first- and second-class cabins, and photographs like this were among the few records of that long voyage. Viewers today can compare the crowding and clothing here with the processing that waited at Ellis Island.
| Created / published | 1906 Dec. 10. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | H86407 U.S. Copyright Office. |
| Subjects | Immigrants--United States--1900-1910. Passengers--United States--1900-1910. Emigration & immigration--United States--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,913 × 1,500 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-111766 |
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