Ellis Island

Ellis Island was for decades America's main port of entry for immigrants. Most of these photos are not very good quality, but they offer a touching view into a few of the people seeking a better life in America.

 Ellis Island arrivals, 1904

 Ellis Island immigrants

 Immigrants at Ellis Island

 Immigrants being processed at Ellis Island

 Immigrant children, Ellis Island, New York, 1908

 Italian immigrant family at Ellis Island, 1910

 Slavs at Ellis Island

 Trachoma Inspections at Ellis Island

Their first photograph at Ellis Island

Edward S. Curtis

 Incense, Atsina

 Running Owl's daughter, young Piegan girl

 On the War Path, Atsina

 Sarsi woman cooking over campfire, Alberta, Canada

 Sundance lodge with Cheyenne people standing inside

 Two young Piegan women seated in tall grass

 The wife of Ow High

 Spotted Bull, Mandan

Three Horses

National Photo - Kids

 Child with tuba

 McAdoo children, 1923

 July 4th celebration, Takoma Park, Maryland, 1923

 Mrs. Tomlin's school, 1910-20

 Mrs. Boby's group, 1924

 Municipal bathing beach, 1909-19

[this "bathing beach" looks suspiciously like a swimming pool]
 

 Pie eating contest, Jefferson School, 1923

 Playground, 1918-20

 Meet Sebastian and Julius. Little Mary McDowell, 9 year old student of the Grant School, 

exhibiting a boa constrictor and a garter snake. 1927

Miss Lillian Leitzel, star with Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey circus 

helping Dolly Jahn celebrate her birthday. 1926

Cabinet Cards - Kids

 Little girls having a tea party, Jamestown, New York

 Girl standing on chair, San Francisco, California

 Greek girl in traditional costume

 Traudi, ten years old, Munich, Germany

 Nellie Ewing, Sidney, Ohio, 1896

 Well-dressed sisters

 Young child in winter coat, Philadelphia

 Three children, Tekameh, Nebraska

Two young children, Broadway, New York

John Vachon

 Drinking fountain on the county courthouse lawn, Halifax, North Carolina, 1938

[<sarcasm>the "good old days"</sarcasm>]

 Wife and child of FSA tenant purchase borrower, Crawford County, Illinois, 1940

 Wife of resettled farmer, Roanoke Farms, North Carolina, 1938

Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas, 1943

FSA Color Photos

 Arthur Rothstein: Boy building a model airplane as girl watches, 

FSA camp, Robstown, Texas, 1942

 Girl next to barn with chicken, 1941-42

 Girl with doll standing by fence, 1941-42

 Russell Lee: Delta County Fair, Colorado, 1940

 Russell Lee: Couples at square dance, McIntosh County, Oklahoma, 1940

 Russell Lee: Orchestra at square dance in McIntosh County, Oklahoma, 1940

Russell Lee: Scene at square dance in rural home in McIntosh County, Oklahoma, 1940

Detroit Publishers - Atlantic City

To all the people suffering in the wake of the big Eastern Seaboard snowstorm: look at these and think of better days to come...

 Looping the loop, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1901

Ponies on the beach, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1900-1906

 On the beach, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1904

 The Boardwalk parade, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1905

 The Boardwalk, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1905

 The Boardwalk, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1905

 The Dennis Hotel, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1905

 The Rudolph, Atlantic City, 1900-1906

The Sandman, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1880-1901