The faces of immigrants … each one an unique individual! Never forget this fact!!
We often forget that each one of the immigrants who entered this country between 1892 and 1954 was a unique person with their own cultural identity.
These people came to the United States filled with the hope of a better life, and the mingling of their cultures eventually wove the fabric of American identity.
But it’s easy to quantify these people into lists of numbers, names, and nations. It’s far more difficult, however, to reach back into the past and reveal the faces behind those facts and figures.
This is the image that we associate with Ellis Island today.
While the Immigrant Wall of Honor is an incredibly important monument, there’s something distant and isolating about seeing thousands of names etched into shiny stone walls.
But the images that Sherman captured over the course of his career show the true faces of immigration.
From 1892 to 1954, Ellis Island saw…
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