Ellis Island and immigration photos
Photographs of immigrants arriving in America through Ellis Island around the turn of the 20th century: steerage passengers, the inspection halls, families with their belongings and new lives in the cities.
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Arriving
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Arriving at Ellis Island
1915 · Library of Congress
Arriving at Ellis Island
1907 · Library of Congress
Recently arrived persons at Ellis Island, N.Y.
1907 · Library of Congress
Immigrants just arrived from Foreign Countries--Immigrant Building, Ellis Island, New York Harbor
1904 · Library of Congress
Recently arrived persons, Ellis Island, N.Y.
1907 · Library of Congress
Ellis Island arrivals
1904 · Library of Congress
Ellis Island
1900 · Library of Congress
Ellis Island, NY
1900 · Library of Congress
Families
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Group of Italian immigrants waiting at Ellis Island by Lewis Hine (1908, NYPL 460704) (front)
1908 · Wikimedia Commons
Italian immigrants at Ellis Island
1905 · Wikimedia Commons
Joys and Sorrows 1905 Ellis Island black and white
1905 · Wikimedia Commons
Group of Italians in the railroad waiting room, Ellis Island by Lewis Hine (1905, NYPL 212054) (mounted with caption)
1905 · Wikimedia Commons
Dutch family, Ellis Island
1915 · Library of Congress
Emigrants, returning for Balkan War
1912 · Library of Congress
Families of sugar strikers, Williamsburg *Abstract/medium:; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
1900 · Library of Congress
Joys and Sorrows Ellis Island 1905 sepia
1905 · Wikimedia Commons
On the ships
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Emigrants on the steerage deck of FRIEDRICH DER GROSSE
1907–1921 · Library of Congress
Immigrant Ship
c. 1905 · Wikimedia Commons
Enemy Activities - Miscellaneous - Passengers of the British S.S. Appam arrive in New York City. The Appam was taken as a war prize by the Germans and brought into Newport News. The photograph was made aboard the S.S. Jefferson of the Old Dominion Line on its arrival in New York City
1916-02-04 · U.S. National Archives
Inmigrantes europeos llegando a Argentina
1904 · Wikimedia Commons
Immigrant Ship
c. 1895 · Wikimedia Commons
Survivors of TITANIC on CARPATHIA
1912-04 · Library of Congress
Arriving at Ellis Island
1915 · Library of Congress
Forward deck of IMPERATOR - Passengers & luggage
1913 · Library of Congress
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