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Immigrants carrying bundles and luggage climb a staircase at Ellis Island

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Climbing into America

Creator
Lewis Wickes Hine, American, 1874–1940
Date
1905, printed 1930s
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Source
National Gallery of Art, Washington. Gift of Leslie and Judith Schreyer and Gabrielle Schreyer-Hoffman, 2024.179.1
Rights
Public domain (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
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A man waits with others queued behind him at the registration desk at Ellis Island, where an official is seated

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Immigrants at Ellis Island

Creator
Bain News Service
Date
Between 1907 and 1917
Source
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
Rights
No known restrictions on publication
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Immigrants, many holding papers, stand in a long line beneath a glass-roofed canopy

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Passed and waiting to be taken off Ellis Island

Creator
Edwin Levick, 1869–1929
Date
1902–1913
Source
From The New York Public Library. Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
Rights
Public domain in the United States
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A large Scottish family of parents and children stands in a row for a portrait at Ellis Island

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Scottish immigrant family

Creator
Unknown photographer
Date
September 1905
Source
National Park Service, Ellis Island National Monument
Rights
Public domain
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Men and women with bundles and suitcases wait on a dock, with New York City across the river

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Immigrants waiting to be transferred, Ellis Island, October 30, 1912

Creator
Underwood & Underwood
Date
c. 1912
Source
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Rights
No known restrictions on publication
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A doorway in a red gallery wall hung with portraits opens onto a long, lit corridor

Digital Discovery Audit band · also Audit hero

Creator
Andrew Faires
Date
August 1, 2021
Location
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Source
Unsplash
Rights
Free to use under the Unsplash License
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A lone visitor silhouetted in a lit doorway at the end of a dark gallery corridor

Introduction

Creator
Should Wang
Date
March 5, 2019
Location
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Source
Unsplash
Rights
Free to use under the Unsplash License
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A visitor in silhouette stands before a large illuminated mural in a dark gallery

Gallery photograph

Creator
Shu-Yu Chou
Date
April 11, 2026
Source
Unsplash
Rights
Free to use under the Unsplash License
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