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Buying Tickets at Ellis Island

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Description: Immigrants buying tickets at Ellis Island.
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Detention at Ellis Island

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Description: Immigrants being detained at Ellis Island. Three boys lay on the ground together.
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Medical Inspection of Immigrants

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Description: Medical inspection of immigrants at Ellis Island.
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Russian Immigrants Convention

Date: 1918
Description: A convention of Russian immigrants at Beethoven Hall in New York City. The newspaper caption for this photograph describes the Bolshevik communist faction...
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Immigrants at Ellis Island

Date: 1900
Description: A group of immigrants, both children and adults, who have just arrived at Ellis Island.
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Immigrants with Christmas Tree

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Description: A group of immigrants pose in front of a tall Christmas tree at Ellis Island.
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Statue of Liberty as Photographed Upon Arrival into the United States by Holocaust Survivor

Date: 1947
Description: The Statue of Liberty and New York Harbor as photographed by Holocaust survivor, Louis Koplin. Taken from the ship carrying him from Europe to the United S...
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Arkady Joseph Sack

Date: 11 12 1917
Description: Waist-up portrait of A. J. Sack, who was director of the Russian Information Bureau and author of The Birth of the Russian Democracy, America's P...
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Mary Mathews Adams

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Description: Vignetted quarter-length carte-de-visite portrait of Mary Matthews Adams, wife of Charles Kendall Adams, 1890-1902. She was a philanthropist and poet, whos...

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