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A country where the great majority are immigrants is different than a country where people have been living for hundreds of years. People who come to another country, who are torn from their homes, learn that things are not just as they thought; that there are different things to eat for breakfast than coffee and a roll. You can think that is human nature til you go somewhere else and eat corn flakes. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
Settled by the people of all nations, all nations may claim her for their own. You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world...our blood is as the flood of the Amazon, made up of a thousand noble currents all pouring into one. We are not a nation, so much as a world. - Herman Melville
It's a place, Ellis Island.
And it contains all of America.
Its dreams.
Its limits.
The variety of who came here. Their hopes. What they brought with them.
Cultures, languages, religions. Styles of dress, of sitting, of facial expression.
A moment in time. A cacophony of voices. Silently caught.
The procedures of the place. The values and barriers they represented.
And it contains all of America.
Its dreams.
Its limits.
The variety of who came here. Their hopes. What they brought with them.
Cultures, languages, religions. Styles of dress, of sitting, of facial expression.
A moment in time. A cacophony of voices. Silently caught.
The procedures of the place. The values and barriers they represented.
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Key to Paintings
| Child Detained 12x12 | |
Hungarian Farmer 12x12 | |
Hungarian Servant 12x12 | |
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| Russian Widow 12x12 |  |
Irish Girl (sold) 12x12 | |
Italian Laborer 12x12 | |
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| Russian Cattle Dealer 12x12 | |
Shepherd (sold) 12x12 | |
Irish Servant (sold) 12x12 | |
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| German Stowaway 12x12 | |
Swedish Woman 12x12 | |
Boy (sold) 12x12 | |
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| Playing on the Steerage Deck 18x18 | |
Medical Exam - 1907 16x16 | |
Nine Children from Holland 20x24 | |
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| Detention Dining Hall 12x12 | |
Men on Dock (sold) 12x12 | |
Three Scottish Sisters (sold) 12x12 | |
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| Two Officials Observing the Line 12x12 | |
Women Arriving (sold) 12x12 | |
Younger Scottish Siblings (sold) 12x12 | |
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