33 Beautiful Vintage Portraits Of America's Immigrant Past From Ellis Island
The Senate approved comprehensive immigration reform Thursday by a 68–32 vote count and the legislation now moves to the House. The bill would legalize millions of current undocumented immigrants. Here are some photos of immigrants from the early 1900s courtesy of the the New York Public Libary's digital collections.
1. A German stowaway
2. A Greek Orthodox priest
3. A Bavarian man
4. Two Romanian women
5. A man whose descent was not identified, possibly Russian
6. A Guadeloupean woman
7. Three Scottish boys
8. A Dutch woman
9. A Danish man
10. Three Russian Cossacks
11. A Ruthenian woman
12. A Slovak woman with her child
13. Another man whose descent was not identified, possibly Russian
14. A Romanian man
15. Several Romani people
16. An Albanian soldier
17. A Greek woman
18. A Greek man
19. An Italian woman
20. An Algerian man
21. An Indian boy
22. Three women from Guadeloupe
23. A Romani family
24. Three Dutch women
25. Two pipers
26. An Italian woman
27. A Turkish man
28. An Algerian man
29. Two Lapland children, possibly from Sweden or Finland
30. A Romanian shepherd
31. A Czech-Slovak grandmother
32. A Jewish immigrant
33. A Bavarian man
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Andrew Kaczynski is a political reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York.
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