20 portraits of immigrants to America at the beginning of the last century

Augustus Sherman worked in these years, the chief official in the office of records at Ellis island in new York, who was for many years the "gateway" through which immigrants came into the United States. Having access to the immigrants who were detained for one reason or another, he asked them to wear the best costumes and photographed. For the first time some of these photos are from the collection of Sherman was published in National Geographic magazine in 1907.

Wilhelm Schleich, Bavaria

Sami woman from Finland

A woman from the Ruthenia

A woman from Romania

The shepherd from Romania

A musician from Romania

A priest by the name of Vasilon from Greece

A woman from Holland

Peter Meyer from Denmark, 57, who arrived on the ship "Mauritania"

A woman from Norway

A woman from Holland with her two daughters

The woman from Italy

The woman from Italy

Boy from India

Woman of Guadeloupe

Woman from Alsace, Germany

A guy from Germany, who came to the U.S. "hare"

Russian Cossack

The man from Algeria

Soldiers from Albania