“Bread and Hope: A Family’s First Meal in America” Ellis Island NYC, c.1900s”, c.1900s

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“Bread and Hope: A Family’s First Meal in America” Ellis Island NYC, c.1900s”, c.1900s

Edition of 50
DP2347/13X19

Fine Art Print produced from digital file created from original vintage glass camera negative and printed on 100% cotton Canson Infinity Platine Fibre Rag photo paper 310g/m2. (Watermarks do not appear on the actual artwork.) Print carefully fitted in 18 X 24" Bright White 100% cotton pre-cut Museum Exhibition mat board fully assembled with a 4-ply beveled window and a 2-ply backing board, hinged together with linen tape, 13 x 19 in 33 x 48.3 cm
“Bread and Hope: A Family’s First Meal in America” Ellis Island NYC, c.1900s”, c.1900s

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$ 350.00

High quality digital print produced from digital file created from original vintage glass camera negative and printed on 100% cotton Canson Infinity Platine Fibre Rag photo paper 310g/m2. Watermarks do not appear on the actual artwork. (Watermarks do not appear on the actual artwork.) Print carefully fitted in 22 X 28" Bright White 100% cotton pre-cut Museum Exhibition mat board fully assembled with a 4-ply beveled window and a 2-ply backing board, hinged together with linen tape, 17 x 22 in 43.2 x 55.9 cm
“Bread and Hope: A Family’s First Meal in America” Ellis Island NYC, c.1900s”, c.1900s

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This poignant limited-edition print captures a quiet yet powerful moment of arrival at Ellis Island in the early 1900s. A family of newly arrived Eastern European immigrants—three women, a man,...

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This poignant limited-edition print captures a quiet yet powerful moment of arrival at Ellis Island in the early 1900s. A family of newly arrived Eastern European immigrants—three women, a man, and two baby girls—sits on the ground sharing a modest meal. Dressed in humble peasant clothing, they rest together after a long and uncertain journey, surrounded by their few belongings.
Behind them, the red-brick architecture of Ellis Island and scattered figures of other immigrants form a backdrop to this deeply human scene. The father, watchful and composed. The mother, tending to her child. The expressions are calm but carry the gravity of a world left behind—and the fragile beginnings of a new life.
Offered as a fine art limited-edition print, this image is a rare and intimate glimpse into the immigrant experience. It honors the resilience and dignity of those who built a new life from the ground up—sometimes quite literally, beginning with a meal on Ellis Island’s soil.

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Provenance

From an original vintage glass negative, c.1900s.
Past in Present.com Inc private historical archive.
Extensively researched; no record found of this exact image published in major public archives or commercial photographic collections to date.

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