Immigrants going to 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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A window into the past: Immigrants going to Ellis Island, 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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Immigrants going to Ellis Island
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Arriving passengers at Ellis Island, in New York Harbor, were the subject of many photographs taken by the Bain News Service, and this glass negative is one of those documents of the island's immigrant processing years. The Bain News Service was a commercial picture agency that sold news photographs to newspapers, so its pictures were made to be reproduced quickly. Between 1892 and 1954, the federal immigration station on Ellis Island inspected millions of people, many of whom came from Europe. The Library of Congress holds the George Grantham Bain Collection, and its title for this image comes from unverified caption data, so the exact date and the people shown remain uncertain.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,056 × 3,735 px · prints to 17 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10359 |
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