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20th Century Augustus Francis Sherman and Ellis Island (1905-1920)
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1.Augustus Francis Sherman
1906 (ca)
[Russian Cossacks]

Platinum print
24 x 17.5 cm (image) 35 x 27.5 cm (mount)
 
NYPL - New York Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants, Image ID: 418042
 
LL/31794
2.Augustus Francis Sherman
1906 (ca)
[Alsace-Lorraine girl]

Platinum print
24 x 18 cm (image) 35 x 27.5 cm (mount)
 
NYPL - New York Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants, Image ID: 418033
 
Identified as "Girl from the Kochersberg region near Strasbourg, Alsace" in Peter Mesenhöller "Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits 1905-1920" (c1905) p.30-31.
 
LL/31785
3.Augustus Francis Sherman
1906 (ca)
[Ruthenian woman]

Platinum print
25.5 x 17.5 cm (image) 35.5 x 28 (mount)
 
NYPL - New York Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants, Image ID: 418034
 
LL/31796
4.Augustus Francis Sherman
1906 (ca)
[Italian woman]

Platinum print
24 x 18 cm (image) 35 x 27.5 cm (mount)
 
NYPL - New York Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants, Image ID: 418055
 
LL/31807
5.Augustus Francis Sherman
1906-1914 (ca)
[Slovak woman and children]

Platinum print
24.5 x 19 cm (image) 35 x 27.5 cm (mount)
 
NYPL - New York Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants, Image ID: 418048
 
LL/31781
6.Augustus Francis Sherman
1906-1914 (ca)
[Scottish boys]

Platinum print
24 x 17.5 cm (image) 35 x 27.5 cm (mount)
 
NYPL - New York Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants, Image ID: 418038
 
LL/31783
7.Augustus Francis Sherman
1906-1914 (ca)
[Dutch woman.]

Platinum print
24 x 17.5 cm (image) 35 x 27.5 cm (mount)
 
NYPL - New York Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants, Image ID: 418051
 
Identified as 'Protestant woman from Zuid-Beveland, province of Zeeland, The Netherlands' in Peter Mesenhöller "Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits 1905-1920" (c1905) p.61.
 
LL/31784
8.Augustus Francis Sherman
1906-1914 (ca)
[Bavarian man]

Platinum print
24 x 18 cm (image) 35 x 27.5 cm (mount)
 
NYPL - New York Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants, Image ID: 418026
 
Identified as "Wilhelm Schleich, a miner from Hohenpeissenberg, Bavaria" in Peter Mesenhöller "Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits 1905-1920" (c1905) p.28.
 
LL/31786
9.Augustus Francis Sherman
1906-1914 (ca)
[Bavarian man]

Platinum print
24 x 18 cm (image) 35 x 27.5 cm (mount)
 
NYPL - New York Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants, Image ID: 418030
 
Identified as "Wilhelm Schleich" in Peter Mesenhöller "Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits 1905-1920" (c1905) p.29.
 
LL/31787
10.Augustus Francis Sherman
1906-1914 (ca)
Girl from Rõttvik, province of Dalarna, Sweden

Platinum print
24 x 17.5 cm (image) 35 x 27.5 cm (mount)
 
NYPL - New York Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants, Image ID: 418035
 
Formerly identified as "Norwegian girl;" new title from Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits 1905-1920 by Peter Mesenhöller (2005) p.127.
 
LL/31790
11.Augustus Francis Sherman
1906-1914 (ca)
[Norwegian woman]

Platinum print
24 x 17 cm (image) 35 x 27.5 cm (mount)
 
NYPL - New York Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants, Image ID: 418040
 
Formerly titled "Swedish woman;" costume is from the west coast of Norway.
 
LL/31791
12.Augustus Francis Sherman
1906-1914 (ca)
[Lapland children, possibly from Sweden]

Platinum print
24 x 17.5 cm (image) 35 x 27.5 cm (mount)
 
NYPL - New York Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants, Image ID: 418037
 
LL/31792
13.Augustus Francis Sherman
1906-1914 (ca)
[Laplander]

Platinum print
24 x 18.5 cm (image) 35 x 27.5 cm (mount)
 
NYPL - New York Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants, Image ID: 418041
 
Identified as "Sami woman from Finland" in Peter Mesenhöller "Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits 1905-1920" (c1905) p.43.
 
LL/31793
14.Augustus Francis Sherman
1906-1914 (ca)
[Russian Cossacks]

Platinum print
NYPL - New York Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants, Image ID: 418045
 
LL/31795
15.Augustus Francis Sherman
1906-1914 (ca)
[Slovakian women]

Platinum print
24 x 18 cm (image) 35 x 27.5 cm (mount)
 
NYPL - New York Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants, Image ID: 418049
 
LL/31797
16.Augustus Francis Sherman
1906-1914 (ca)
[Romanian women]

Platinum print
24 x 18 cm (image) 35 x 27.5 cm (mount)
 
NYPL - New York Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants, Image ID: 418027
 
LL/31798
17.Augustus Francis Sherman
1906-1914 (ca)
[Romanian woman]

Platinum print
24 x 18 cm (image) 35 x 27.5 cm (mount)
 
NYPL - New York Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants, Image ID: 418028
 
LL/31799
18.Augustus Francis Sherman
1906-1914 (ca)
[Romanian piper]

Platinum print
24 x 17.5 cm (image) 35 x 27.5 cm (mount)
 
NYPL - New York Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants, Image ID: 418031
 
LL/31800
19.Augustus Francis Sherman
1906-1914 (ca)
[Romanian shepherd]

Platinum print
25 x 20 cm (image) 35.5 x 28 cm (mount)
 
NYPL - New York Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants, Image ID: 418046
 
LL/31801
20.Augustus Francis Sherman
1906-1914 (ca)
[Albanian soldier]

Platinum print
24 x 18 cm (image) 35 x 27.5 cm (mount)
 
NYPL - New York Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants, Image ID: 418054
 
LL/31802
21.Augustus Francis Sherman
1906-1914 (ca)
[Rev. Joseph Vasilon, Greek-Orthodox priest]

Platinum print
24 x 17 cm (image) 35 x 27.5 cm (mount)
 
NYPL - New York Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants, Image ID: 418050
 
Identification from Peter Mesenhöller "Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits 1905-1920" (c1905) p.34.
 
LL/31805
22.Augustus Francis Sherman
1906-1914 (ca)
[Italian woman]

Platinum print
24 x 19 cm (image) 35 x 27.5 cm (mount)
 
NYPL - New York Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants, Image ID: 418029
 
LL/31806
23.Augustus Francis Sherman
1906-1914 (ca)
[Algerian man]

Platinum print
24.5 x 18 cm (image) 35 x 27.5 cm (mount)
 
NYPL - New York Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants, Image ID: 418036
 
LL/31808
24.Augustus Francis Sherman
1906-1914 (ca)
[Algerian man]

Platinum print
24 x 17.5 cm (image) 35 x 27.5 cm (mount)
 
NYPL - New York Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants, Image ID: 418058
 
LL/31809
25.Augustus Francis Sherman
1906-1914 (ca)
[Dutch children]

Platinum print
NYPL - New York Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants, Image ID: 1206545
 
Identified in Peter Mesenhöller "Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits 1905-1920" (c1905) p.86: Dutch siblings from the Island of Marken, holding religious tracts
 
LL/31811
26.Augustus Francis Sherman
1906-1914 (ca)
[Gypsy family]

Platinum print
NYPL - New York Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants, Image ID: 1206546
 
Identified in Peter Mesenhöller "Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits 1905-1920" (c1905) p.131: Rome family.
 
LL/31812
27.Augustus Francis Sherman
1906-1914 (ca)
[three Dutch women]

Platinum print
NYPL - New York Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants, Image ID: 1206548
 
Identified as "Mother and her two daughters from Zuid-Beveland, province of Zeeland, The Netherlands" in Peter Mesenhöller "Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits 1905-1920" (c1905) p.57.
 
LL/31813
28.Augustus Francis Sherman
1906-1914 (ca)
[Cossack man from the steppes of Russia]

Platinum print
NYPL - New York Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants, Image ID: 1206549
 
LL/31814
29.Augustus Francis Sherman
1906-1914 (ca)
[Pipers]

Platinum print
NYPL - New York Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants, Image ID: 1206550
 
Identified as 'Romanian shepherds' in Peter Mesenhöller "Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits 1905-1920" (c1905) p.68.
 
LL/31815
30.Augustus Francis Sherman
1906-1914 (ca)
[Turkish man]

Platinum print
NYPL - New York Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants, Image ID: 1206551
 
Identified in Peter Mesenhöller "Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits 1905-1920" (c1905) p.69 from caption on back of print reproduced there: "Turkish bank guard John Postantzis, Feb 9, 1912".
 
LL/31816
31.Augustus Francis Sherman
1909
[Danish man]

Platinum print
24 x 18 cm (image) 35 x 27.5 cm (mount)
 
NYPL - New York Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants, Image ID: 418053
 
Identified as "Peter Meyer -- [age] 57, Denmark. [SS] 'Mauretania' Apr. 30 -- '09" from Svendberg, in Peter Mesenhöller "Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits 1905-1920" (c1905) p.38-39.
 
LL/31789
32.Augustus Francis Sherman
1909
[Greek woman]

Platinum print
24 x 18 cm (image) 35 x 27.5 cm (mount)
 
NYPL - New York Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants, Image ID: 418047
 
Captioned print reproduced in Peter Mesenhöller "Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits 1905-1920" (c1905) p.78: Greek woman -- June -- 1909.
 
LL/31804
33.Augustus Francis Sherman
1911
[Guadeloupean woman]

Platinum print
24 x 17.5 cm (image) 35 x 27.5 cm (mount)
 
NYPL - New York Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants, Image ID: 418039
 
LL/31782
34.Augustus Francis Sherman
1911
[Greek soldier]

Platinum print
24 x 17 cm (image) 35 x 27.5 cm (mount)
 
NYPL - New York Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants, Image ID: 464937
 
Identified as 'Greek evzone or Palace Guard' in Peter Mesenhöller "Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits 1905-1920" (c1905) p.67.
 
LL/31803
35.Augustus Francis Sherman
1911
[Hindoo boy]

Platinum print
24 x 17.5 cm (image) 35 x 27.5 cm (mount)
 
NYPL - New York Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants, Image ID: 418056
 
Identified in Peter Mesenhöller "Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits 1905-1920" (c1905) p.94 from another print that bears a caption: Thumbu Sammy, aged 17, Hindoo ex SS 'Adriatic', April 14, 1911.
 
LL/31810
36.Augustus Francis Sherman
1911
[German stowaway]

Platinum print
24 x 17.5 cm (image) 35 x 27.5 cm (mount)
 
NYPL - New York Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants, Image ID: 418057
 
Varient print reproduced in Peter Mesenhöller "Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits 1905-1920" (c1905) p.86 bears typed caption: Tattooed German stowaways deported May, 1911.
 
LL/31788
   
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