Ellis Island: Shipping emigrants - another method – Historic Print
(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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Ellis Island: Shipping emigrants - another method
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Rather than the crowded ferries or the great registry hall, this view of Ellis Island shows emigrants being moved by wagon, which the title presents as another way of shipping arrivals onward. The picture is a halftone reproduction of a photoprint that appeared in *Quarantine Sketches*, a 1902 pamphlet issued by the Maltine Company, a maker of malt-based tonics, as advertising for physicians. The island had opened in 1892 as the main federal immigration station at New York Harbor, so the scene captures a busy stage of that processing. The date and caption details come from an unverified catalog card, so treat the specifics with some care.
| Created / published | 1902 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone. |
| Subjects | Halftone reproduction of photoprint in Quarantine Sketches, a pamphlet published as advertising in 1902 by the Maltine Company for distribution to physicians. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: NYC--Ellis Island; Immigration; Wagons. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,326 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-157903 |
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