Ice sailing

Bain News Service, publisher.

[between 1910 and 1915]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Uniformed Letter Carrier with Child in Mailbag

Description: This city letter carrier posed for a humorous photograph with a young boy in his mailbag. After parcel post service was introduced in 1913, at least two children were sent by the service. With stamps attached to their clothing, the children rode with railway and city carriers to their destination. The Postmaster General quickly issued a regulation forbidding the sending of children in the mail after hearing of those examples.

Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer

Medium: Black and white photographic print

Culture: American

Geography: USA

Date: 1900

Collection: U.S. Postal Employees

Repository: National Postal Museum

Ellis Island Portraits- Hindoo Boy

Sherman, Augustus F. (Augustus Francis) — Photographer. [1911]

Notes: Indentified in Peter Mesenholler ‘Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits 1905-1920’ (c1905) p.94 from another print that bears a caption: Thumbu Sammy, aged 17, Hindoo ex SS ‘Adriatic’, April 14, 1911.

Source: William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants (more info)

Repository: The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.

Ellis Island Portraits - Romanian Piper

Sherman, Augustus F. (Augustus Francis) — Photographer. [ca. 1906-1914]

Source: William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants (more info)

Repository: The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.

Ellis Island Portraits - Slovak woman and children

Sherman, Augustus F. (Augustus Francis) — Photographer. [ca. 1906-1914]

Source: William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants (more info)

Repository: The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.

Ellis Island Portraits - Ruthenian Woman

Sherman, Augustus F. (Augustus Francis) — Photographer. [ca. 1906]

Source: William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants (more info)

Repository: The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.

Ellis Islands Portraits - German stowaway

Sherman, Augustus F. (Augustus Francis) — Photographer. [1911]

Notes: Varient print reproduced in Peter Mesenholler ‘Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits 1905-1920’ (c1905) p.86 bears typed caption: Tattooed German stowaways deported May, 1911.

Source: William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants (more info)

Repository: The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.

“Many photographers were drawn to Ellis Island by the general human interest and newsworthiness of the scene; others, such as pioneering social photographer Lewis Wickes Hine (1874-1940), responded to the individual humanity of the immigrants’ raw eagerness, symbolized for Hine by their humble possessions and their stoicism.

One amateur photographer, Augustus Sherman, the Ellis Island Chief Registry Clerk, had special access to potential subjects for his camera. It is likely that Sherman’s elaborately costumed subjects were detainees, new immigrants held at Ellis Island for one reason or another. While waiting for what they needed to leave the island (an escort, or money, or travel tickets), some of these immigrants may have been persuaded to pose for Sherman’s camera, donning their best holiday finery or national dress, which they had brought with them from home.

Sherman’s pictures were published in National Geographic in 1907 and for decades hung anonymously in the lower Manhattan headquarters of the federal Immigration Service. Incoming correspondence in the William Williams Papers suggests that the Commissioner gave copies of Sherman’s haunting photographs to official Ellis Island visitors as mementoes.”

Frank Hurley washing cinematograph film on the “Aurora”

Format: Silver gelatin photonegative

Notes: First Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914

From the collections of the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales www.sl.nsw.gov.au

A mid-summer sunset with the ‘Endurance’ frozen in, 1915, Frank Hurley

Format: Glass Paget plate phototransparency

Notes: Frank Hurley colour Paget plates of Ernest Shackleton’s ‘Endurance’ expedition to Antartica, 1915

From the collection of the State Library of New South Wales www.sl.nsw.gov.au

Glimpse of the Ship [‘Endurance’] through Hummocks, 1915, Frank Hurley

Format: Glass Paget plate phototransparency

Notes: Frank Hurley colour Paget plates of Ernest Shackleton’s ‘Endurance’ expedition to Antartica, 1915

From the collections of the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales www.sl.nsw.gov.au