Portraits of immigrants in the United States early 20th century Bashny.Net

Ellis Island, which is located in New York at the time was the largest point of the immigrants in the United States. One of the chiefs in the registrations in August Sherman photographed immigration detainees. It is thanks to him that today you can see these interesting and high quality portraits. For the first time some of these photographs from the collection of the Sherman were published in the journal "Nashional Geographic" in 1907.





Wilhelm Schleich, Bavaria



Sami woman from Finland



Woman ruthenium



Woman from Romania



Shepherd of Romania



Musician from Romania



A priest by the name of Greece Vasilon



A woman from Holland



Peter Meyer from Denmark, 57 years old, arrived on the ship "Mauritania»



Woman from Norway



A woman from Holland with her two daughters



A woman from Italy



A woman from Italy



Boy from India



Woman from Guadeloupe



Woman from Alsace, Germany



The guy from Germany who came to the United States' hare »



Russian Cossack



Man from Algeria



Soldiers from Albania



Source: viribusunitis1.livejournal.com