Immigrants at Ellis Island – 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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Immigrants at Ellis Island comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Immigrants at Ellis Island
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Ellis Island, in New York Harbor, served as the main federal processing station for arriving immigrants from 1892 to 1954, and this glass negative records the people who passed through its halls during that stretch. The picture comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress, a body of work built largely from the Bain News Service, which supplied news photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century. Its title and date are unverified, so the exact moment it captures is uncertain, but the subject fits the island's busiest decades, when millions of newcomers were inspected, questioned and sometimes detained before entering the country. Glass plates like this one preserve fine detail that makes them valuable to researchers today.
| 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 | 3,491 × 5,169 px · prints to 12 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10045 |
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