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Ellis Island, Main Building, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

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Ellis Island, Main Building, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

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Summary

Significance: Having served as the entrance to the United States at the nation's largest port for over seventy percent of immigrants entering this country from 1892 to 1954, Ellis Island is the most important immigration depot still standing. Over 16 million people passed through the main building on their way to their new homeland.
Survey number: HABS NY-6086-C
Building/structure dates: 1900 Initial Construction
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000058

Set of images depicting various harbors, ports, and piers together with ships, fishing and sailing boats, and all types of haven-like places and views. All large image sets on Picryl.com are made in two steps: First, we picked a set to train AI vision to recognize the feature, and after that, we ran all 25M+ images in our database through an image recognition machine. As usual, all media in the collection belong to the public domain. There is no limitation on the dataset usage - educational, scientific, or commercial.

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Date

1900 - 1980
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Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
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Location

New York, United States40.78306, -73.97125
Google Map of 40.7830603, -73.9712488
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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