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| Description: | Immigrants buying tickets at Ellis Island. |
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| Description: | Immigrants being detained at Ellis Island. Three boys lay on the ground together. |
| Date: | 08 1917 |
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| Description: | World War I recruits scramble over an obstacle during their training, while others watch in the background. |
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| Description: | Medical inspection of immigrants at Ellis Island. |
| Date: | 07 30 1917 |
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| Description: | For these World War I recruits seen at an unidentified training camp on Long Island, the enemy was not the Germans, but ferocious "Jersey mosquitos" and th... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | The Island's Edge, Williamsburg Bridge, East River. |
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| Description: | Park with stone-lined waterways, surrounded by woods. In the middle of the image is a small island with a rustic stone hut and in the background are stone... |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a crowd of people standing on boats lined up along a pier to watch a bi-winged airplane flying over the water. Large buildings ar... |
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| Description: | The Mother Chick Tavern, where Nathan Hale, widely considered America's first spy during the American Revolutionary War, stopped the night before his captu... |
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| Description: | Tents line a beach along the Atlantic Ocean. Foliage covers the foreground and several people and vehicles can be seen throughout the camp. |
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