Colored century photographs of immigrants who arrived in the USA, reveal the contrast of cultures

Amazing photos clearly demonstrate the variety and diversity of different cultures of those people who arrived in the United States in the early twentieth century, hoping to start a new life. Originally black and white pictures were taken August Sherwood Amateur photographer and the employee who checked arrived immigrants on Ellis island. In the period from 1892 to 1954, it was 12 million.

The photos were colorized by Dynamichrome of colorists and will be published in the photo book The Paper Time Machine.

Portraits of the 100-year-old also demonstrate amazing national costumes, which often was the best clothes of people who decided to drop everything and go to America in search of a better life.

Children who come from Lapland. Most likely, a brother and sister. 1910.

Boy from India, 1911.

Male from Romania.

The man from Algeria in national dress, 1910.

Italian woman in traditional headdress, 1910.

The girl from Alsace-Lorraine, which at the time was part of Germany, and after the First world war began to belong to France. 1906.

Orthodox priest from Greece, 1910.

Dane, 1910.

The young man from Algeria, 1910.

Girl from Norway, 1910.

A woman from the Netherlands, 1910.

A native of Albania, 1911.

Girl from Guadeloupe, 1911.

A woman from Lapland, 1910.

Rusinka, 1910. Rusyns inhabited the territory that historically belonged to the Galicia-Volyn Principality. It ceased to exist in the XIV century, and its lands were divided among other States.

Ellis Island.