Ellis Island: Dining Hall - main building – Historic Photograph 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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A window into the past: Ellis Island: Dining Hall - main building, preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Ellis Island: Dining Hall - main building
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The dining hall in the main building at Ellis Island is the subject here, a room where arriving immigrants were fed while they waited to be processed. The image is a halftone reproduction from *Quarantine Sketches*, a 1902 pamphlet issued by the Maltine Company, a maker of malt extract, as advertising for physicians. The main building had opened in 1900 after fire destroyed the earlier station, so the picture captures the facility soon after its rebuilding.
| 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 | 1,797 × 1,500 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-157902 |
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