For many immigrants beginning of the 20 century, "American dream" and money for the ticket through the trek, the island Ellis Island - the first impression of America. It was leaving the building of this new-old American customs officials found the long-awaited - "melting pot" - New York. Someone came to work, with the hope to return. Someone had hoped to settle in America forever, leaving from the problems and needs. People leave all that were behind, taking only the most necessary ... and memory. Perhaps they already children or grandchildren easily parted with this memory, feeling themselves above all American children. But in the eyes of these people have survived the "old life". In their views read only speculate, but no awareness of what will happen to them in a new home. It is these views and the diversity of individuals buduyuschih Americans photographers captures the beginning of the 20 century. (1904-1926) in a series of portrait photographs of Ellis Island.


Contemplate in these individuals, and among all of a sudden they have your ancestors ;

little dutch


greek priest


finn actor


russian cossacks


turok


the girls from guadalupe


italian family looking for lost baggage


the jewish girl from russia


small scottish


woman from norway


albanian soldiers


girls from alsace


bavrian


gypsy family


dutch woman


romanian czaban


woman from russia with all of it´s guetto


italian girl found her first penny


small laplandtsy, presumably from sweden


man from algeria


slovak woman with children


dane


italian


actor from germany


old jew


girl from the swedish province of Dalarna


family. seven sons and a daughter


musicians most likely from bukovina or romania


lithuanian


maybe a syrian woman


hindu boy


russian


slav woman and her baby


serbian gypsies


madonna ellis island (from russia)