Ellis Island group
Photograph
Ellis Island group
1905
Gelatin silver print
Image: 24.3 x 19.4 cm (9 9/16 x 7 5/8 in.)
Overall: 25.3 x 20.2 cm (9 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
Gift of the Photo League Lewis Hine Memorial Committee
1977.0177.0136
Inscriptions recto (white ink): [bordered around the boy and the young girl in the foreground]
(ink): K
- 2 1/4 [?] -
verso (pencil): Ellis Island group
15 [crossed out]
2E
Hine [underlined]
Page - 2 #4
(printed on applied label): Picture #4 - The bundles on their shoulders are not heavier [illeg., inscription partially torn]
the load on their hearts. To these newcomers to ou[inscription partially torn]
country the Americanization Le[inscription partially torn]
rved[corrected in pencil to "did"] [inscription partially torn], 1921 foreign born people in [inscription partially torn]
(Photo by Hine)
[above inscriptions on applied label also inscribed in pencil twice and crossed out]
(pencil): [illeg.]
1944 [underlined]
3 - 3 [underlined]
1 w
1 3/4
(ink): K
- 2 1/4 [?] -
verso (pencil): Ellis Island group
15 [crossed out]
2E
Hine [underlined]
Page - 2 #4
(printed on applied label): Picture #4 - The bundles on their shoulders are not heavier [illeg., inscription partially torn]
the load on their hearts. To these newcomers to ou[inscription partially torn]
country the Americanization Le[inscription partially torn]
rved[corrected in pencil to "did"] [inscription partially torn], 1921 foreign born people in [inscription partially torn]
(Photo by Hine)
[above inscriptions on applied label also inscribed in pencil twice and crossed out]
(pencil): [illeg.]
1944 [underlined]
3 - 3 [underlined]
1 w
1 3/4
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