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ANTI-IMMIGRANT RHETORIC HAS GOTTEN pretty heated this election season, but historically, this is nothing new to America. Though we pride ourselves on being a melting pot, we also have a tendency to go through periods of xenophobia and jingoism. There was a time, though, when our ancestors were arriving in this country, and we don’t always have a window into their experience.
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German man
Sherman notes that this man was a stowaway, and was deported in May of 1911. All photos are taken by Augustus Sherman. Notes are provided where Sherman gave them.
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Italian woman
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Guadeloupean woman
Guadeloupe is a part of the French Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean.
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Laplander
Identified in Sherman’s notes as ‘Sami woman from Finland.’
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Danish man
Identified in Sherman’s notes as “Peter Meyer — 57, Denmark. ‘Mauretania’ Apr. 30 — ’09’ from Svendberg.”
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Cossack man from the steppes of Russia
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Bavarian man
Identified in Sherman’s notes as Wilhelm Schleich.
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Girl from Rattvik, province of Dalarna, Sweden.
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Ruthenian woman
“Ruthenian” is an ethnic term that can (roughly) be equated to today’s ethnic Ukrainians, though it is also used to refer to other Slavic peoples in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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Romanian shepherd
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Albanian soldier
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Hindu boy
From Sherman’s notes: “Thumbu Sammy, aged 17, Hindoo ex SS ‘Adriatic’, April 14, 1911.”
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Greek woman
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Greek-Orthodox priest
Identified in Sherman’s notes as Rev. Joseph Vasilon.
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Italian woman
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Algerian man
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Lapland children
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Turkish man
From Sherman’s notes: ‘Turkish bank guard John Postantzis, Feb 9, 1912’.
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Three Dutch women
In Sherman’s notes: ‘Mother and her two daughters from Zuid-Beveland, province of Zeeland, The Netherlands.’
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Romanian woman
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Girl from Alsace-Lorraine
Identified in Sherman’s notes as “Girl from the Kochersberg region near Strasbourg, Alsace.”
Sherman was a clerk while working on Ellis Island, and the pictures he took give us a glimpse into the humanity of immigrants from all time periods. Immigrants could look scared, proud, out-of-place, or totally at peace. Immigrants are humans, and they carry all of the complicated baggage being a human entails.
Source: matadornetwork.com