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Immigrants at Ellis Island – Vintage Print

Immigrants at Ellis Island, [between 1907 and 1917] — historic photograph
Immigrants at Ellis Island, [between 1907 and 1917]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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Ellis Island, the federal immigration station in New York Harbor, is the setting here, and the record places this scene somewhere between 1907 and 1917, the busiest stretch of its years of operation. Bain News Service, a press photography agency in New York, made the picture, and its negative is part of the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress. Arrivals passed through the station's registry rooms, where inspectors checked health and paperwork before anyone could enter the country. Photographs like this one are a useful record of that crowded process, and they show the scale of immigration in the early twentieth century.

Created / published[between 1907 and 1917]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1920.
NotesPhotograph by Bain News Service. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsImmigrants--Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)--1900-1920. Emigration & immigration--Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)--1900-1920. Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)--1900-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,028 × 1,280 px · prints to 3 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-115332

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