Birthdays on Dec. 1st:

Woody Allen, Manhattan based clarinet player with a certain talent for acting and directing, b. Dec. 1, 1935.

Las Vegas, 1966, Bill Ray

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Woman with two boys and a female spirit

Around 1920, William Hope.

Collection of National Media Museum

Two women with a spirit

By William Hope

The face of a young woman appears over the woman on the right of the photograph. The reverse of the photograph reads: ‘Why is the child always pushing to the front?’ and ‘Do we get messages from the higher spirits?’; perhaps questions the women wanted answering. One of the sitters, at Hope’s request, has signed the plate for authentication.

Collection of National Media Museum

Man with the spirit of his second wife

By William Hope

A woman’s face appears in ‘misty’ drapes around the man. He was said to have been asked to sit for a photograph by a voice heard at a seance held on 6 May 1923. This man had also identified the ‘spirit’ of his deceased first wife in an earlier photograph.

Collection of National Media Museum

Three Dutch Women

Notes: Identified as ‘Mother and her two daughters from Zuid-Beveland, province of Zeeland, The Netherlands’ in Peter Mesenholler ‘Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits 1905-1920’ (c1905) p.57.

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

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

Group photograph captioned ‘Hungarian Gypsies all of whom were deported’ in The New York Times, Sunday Feb. 12, 1905.

Sherman, Augustus F. (Augustus Francis) — Photographer. 1902-1905

Notes: N.d., but 1905, just after Commissioner Williams’ resignation. When the same photograph appeared in ‘City life and municipal facts’ (June 8, 1911), it was called ‘A family of Servian Gypses.’ (Both clippings appear in the Williams scrapbooks: Vol. I, p. 71 back; and Vol. II, p. 55 front.) This photo appears in Dunne, Thomas. ‘Ellis Island’ (W.W. Norton & Co., 1971), p. [62].

Source: Photographs of Ellis Island, 1902-1913. (more info)

Repository: The New York Public Library. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs.

Italian woman

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- 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 - 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.