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Ellis Island, N.Y. - one of the 1000 marriageable girls" on the "Baltic"" – Antique Print

Ellis Island, N.Y. - one of the 1000 marriageable girls" on the "Baltic"", [1907] — historic photograph
Ellis Island, N.Y. - one of the 1000 marriageable girls" on the "Baltic"", [1907]. Historic photograph from the Ellis Island 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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A window into the past: Ellis Island, N.Y. - one of the 1000 marriageable girls" on the "Baltic"", preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Ellis Island, N.Y. - one of the 1000 marriageable girls" on the "Baltic""

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Ellis Island is the setting for a group the caption calls "one of the 1000 marriageable girls," who arrived aboard the steamship Baltic. The phrase shows how the press liked to frame immigrant arrivals as romantic curiosities rather than ordinary passengers passing through inspection. The photographer, George Grantham Bain, sold news pictures like this to newspapers, and Ellis Island, the main federal immigrant inspection station since 1892, was where many such stories were reported.

Created / published[1907]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1910-1920.
NotesTitle and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Photo by Geo. G. Bain. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). No. 1693-10.
SubjectsEmigration & immigration--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan2,159 × 1,500 px · prints to 7 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-114207

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