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[View of Ellis Island, N.Y., looking across water toward immigration station] – Historic Photograph Print

[View of Ellis Island, N.Y., looking across water toward immigration station], c1913. — historic photograph
[View of Ellis Island, N.Y., looking across water toward immigration station], c1913.. Historic photograph from the Ellis Island 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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[View of Ellis Island, N.Y., looking across water toward immigration station] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Ellis Island's immigration station, seen across open water, is the subject of this c1913 print from the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress. Bain's news photographs documented the New York waterfront and the steady flow of arrivals that passed through the station after it opened in 1892. By the 1910s, Ellis Island was the main entry point for millions of people coming to the United States, mostly from Europe, and the view from the water shows the scale of the buildings that processed them. The record tags the picture under emigration and immigration, a reminder of the medical and legal inspections that every arrival faced there.

Created / publishedc1913.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1910-1920.
NotesTitle and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Geogr. file.
SubjectsEmigration & immigration--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan2,155 × 1,500 px · prints to 7 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-118944

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