Incredible Photos Of Immigrants Arriving At Ellis Island

Not Everyone Was Welcome

Sherman originally took the photographs for personal study. The subjects in his images were often wearing their national costumes or folk dress, which is what makes them so fascinating to people today. The immigrants included Romanian shepherds, German stowaways, Russians, Norwegians, Greek priests, and women from Ghana wearing elaborate dresses.

This photograph was captioned: “A group of Hungarian gypsies all of whom were deported.” The people in the picture were also labeled as Servian gypsies.