Immigrants from PRINZESS IRENE boarding ferry to take them to Ellis Island – Vintage Print
![Immigrants from PRINZESS IRENE boarding ferry to take them to Ellis Island, [ca.1911] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/72/721219550035-L.webp)
(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 boarding ferry to take them to Ellis Island. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Immigrants from PRINZESS IRENE boarding ferry to take them to Ellis Island
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Passengers from the steamship Prinzess Irene, a North German Lloyd liner that ran the Bremen to New York route, are shown stepping onto a ferry bound for Ellis Island. The photograph dates to about 1911 and comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a large body of news and feature photographs made by Bain's agency in New York. Ellis Island, in New York Harbor, was the main federal station for processing arriving immigrants in those years, and the transfer from ship to ferry marked the start of the inspections that decided who could enter the country.
| Created / published | [ca.1911] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Emigration & immigration--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,488 × 1,137 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-122807 |
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