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Aerial view of Ellis Island with Manhattan skyline – Vintage Photo Print

Aerial view of Ellis Island with Manhattan skyline — historic image
Aerial view of Ellis Island with Manhattan skyline. Historic image from the Ellis Island collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic image captures Aerial view of Ellis Island with Manhattan skyline in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Aerial view of Ellis Island with Manhattan skyline

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Ellis Island sits in New York Harbor, and this aerial view shows it with the Manhattan skyline rising behind, a pairing that captures how the island's role as the nation's main immigration station was tied to the city it faced. Between 1892 and 1954, millions of arrivals passed through its registry room and hospital before stepping onto the mainland. The black-and-white format of this 1978 view gives the buildings and waterfront a stark, documentary clarity, and the contrast between the island's compact grounds and the dense towers beyond makes the scale of the port easy to read.

Original scan4,320 × 3,258 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
Reference118016pu 1. GENERAL VIEW, LOOKING EAST

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