Research Catalog
Unit I, Immigration.
- Title
- Unit I, Immigration. (1), Ellis Island, scenes and personalities [graphic] / Photo-study by Lewis W. Hine.
- Author
- Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940
- Publication
- 1905-1926, printed 1939.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Still image | Restricted use | AZ 19-236 | Offsite |
Details
- Description
- 32 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w; 5 x 7 in. or smaller, on 8 x 10 in. mounts.
- Summary
- Albanian, Armenian, Finnish, German, Italian, Jewish, Lithuanian, Russian, Slavic, Slovak, and Syrian immigrants at Ellis Island, with luggage, eating, sleeping, preparing for railroad trips, doing handwork, playing and dancing. Collection also includes portraits of individuals and groups.
- Subjects
- Silver gelatin prints
- Syrian Americans
- Russian Americans
- Social workers > United States
- Daughters of the American Revolution
- Arab Americans
- Portraits
- Group portraits
- Immigrants > United States
- Grandmothers
- Armenian Americans
- Waiting rooms > New York > New York
- Italian Americans
- Luggage
- Clothing & dress
- Slavic Americans
- Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)
- Slovak Americans
- German Americans
- Stowaways
- Jews
- Finnish Americans
- Mothers & children > United States
- Dance > United States
- Albanian Americans
- Sleeping
- Eating & drinking > New York > New York
- Lithuanian Americans
- Photographic prints
- Genre/Form
- Group portraits.
- Portraits.
- Photographic prints.
- Silver gelatin prints.
- Note
- Selected, printed, organized and prepared in 1939 for the Russell Sage Foundation Library, New York City. Photographs mounted on grey board with typed labels bearing image number, title and caption, date, and credit line "Photo-study by Lewis W. Hine." Stamped verso with Russell Sage Foundation Library stamps.
- Hine's work photographing immigrants is described by him in six page typescript text bound in a pamphlet folder accompanying the collection.
- Numbered 1-24, 26-32.
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Additional Formats (note)
- Copy negatives available.
- Reproduction (note)
- consists of study prints.
- Provenance (note)
- Transferred from U.S. History, Local History and Geneology Division, 1988; Gift of the Russell Sage Foundation Library, 1949.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Lewis Wickes Hine Collection.
- Contents
- 1. The immigrants' gateway to America -- 2. Italian family en route to Ellis Island -- 3. Climbing into America, Ellis Island, 1905 -- 4. Italian immigrants at Ellis Island, 1905 -- 5. Mid-morning lunch at Ellis Island, 1926 -- 6. A group of Germans having lunch at Ellis Island, 1926 -- 7. Joys and sorrows at Ellis Island, 1905 -- 8. A group of German immigrants at Ellis Island, 1926 -- 9. A group of Italians in the railroad waiting room, Ellis Island, 1905 -- 10. Getting tagged by an official for a railroad trip, Ellis Island, 1905 -- 11. Slavic mother and child at Ellis Island, 1905 -- 12. An Albania woman from Italy at Ellis Island, 1905 -- 13. Mona Lisa visits Ellis Island, 1905 -- 14. A Slovak immigrant, Ellis Island, 1905 -- 15. Italian grandmother at Ellis Island, 1926 -- 16. A Czecho Slovak grandmother at Ellis Island, 1926 -- 17. Mother and child, Italian Ellis Island, 1905 -- 18. Young Russian Jewess at Ellis Island, 1905 -- 19. Jewish grandmother, Ellis Island, 1926 -- 20. Armenian Jew, Ellis Island, 1926 -- 21. Slavic mother, Ellis Island -- 22. A Finnish stowaway at Ellis Island, 1926 -- 23. Jew from Russia at Ellis Island, 1905 -- 25. Puerto Rican detained at Ellis Island, 1926 [Missing] -- 24. Slavic immigrant at Ellis Island, 1905 -- 26. A Syrian Arab at Ellis Island, 1926 -- 27. Lithuanian woman with colorful shawl, Ellis Island, 1926 -- 28. Italian child finds her first penny, 1926, Ellis Island -- 29. A social worker at Ellis Island, 1926.
- cont. 30. Handwork under the auspices of the D.A.R., 1926, Ellis Island -- 31. Children on the playground at Ellis Island, 1926 -- 32. Immigrants detained at Ellis Island take time to be happy, 1926.
- Call Number
- MFZ (Hine) 95-33
- OCLC
- NYPG95-F73
- Author
- Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer.
- Title
- Unit I, Immigration. (1), Ellis Island, scenes and personalities [graphic] / Photo-study by Lewis W. Hine.
- Imprint
- 1905-1926, printed 1939.
- Restricted Access
- Restricted access; Photography Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Additional Formats
- Copy negatives available.
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of the Lewis Wickes Hine Collection.
- Reproduction
- Milstein Division copy (AZ 19-235) consists of study prints.
- Provenance
- Transferred from U.S. History, Local History and Geneology Division, 1988; Gift of the Russell Sage Foundation Library, 1949.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- MFZ (Hine) 95-33AZ 19-236 [part 1]