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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Step back in time with Ellis Island, 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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Ellis Island
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Ellis Island is the subject here, and this glass negative belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress, which holds the work of the Bain News Service, a Manhattan photo agency that supplied news pictures to newspapers in the early twentieth century. The island in New York Harbor served as the main federal immigration station from 1892 to 1954, when millions of arrivals passed through its registry room and medical inspections before entering the country. The record gives no exact date for this negative, and its title comes from unverified caption data, so the scene is best read as one of the many documentary views of the station and its approaches.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,374 × 2,985 px · prints to 15 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-40884 |
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