Ellis Island, immigrant children at play, New York, 1924

black-and-white photograph; nitrate negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
New York
1924-05-19
nitrate negative
8x10 in.

8x10 nitrate negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on May 19, 1924. Image of immigrants at Ellis Island. Visible in image: playground at Ellis Island with slide, teeter-totter, children playing games, only two adults to watch numerous children, New York skyline in distance, ferries and barges on river. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. Handwritten on original negative sleeve: "5/19/24 / NY Tel Co- 15 Dey St.- City / Miss James, Room 905 / Emmigrant story- / Ellis Island" and typed: "19686 / 1300-3".

1984.187.19686

Mystic Seaport Museum, Rosenfeld Collection