Immigrants from Prinzess Irene" going to Ellis Island" – Antique Wall Art
(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 from Prinzess Irene" going to Ellis Island". Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Immigrants from Prinzess Irene" going to Ellis Island"
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The steamship Prinzess Irene, a North German Lloyd liner that ran between Bremen and New York, carried the passengers in this 1911 photograph bound for Ellis Island. George Grantham Bain, a news photographer who documented New York life in the early twentieth century, made the image when the island was the country's main immigration station. Arriving passengers were ferried across New York Harbor for medical and legal inspection, a process that could take hours or longer, and the picture captures that brief passage between ship and processing.
| Created / published | 1911 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Photo by George G. Bain. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Emigration & immigration--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,112 × 1,500 px · prints to 7 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-114265 |
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