Color portraits of immigrants at Ellis Island – in pictures | Culture | The Guardian
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Many of the 12 million people who entered the US through New York’s Ellis Island wore traditional dress from their homelands. The early 1900s images by chief registry clerk Augustus Francis Sherman have been brought to life by colorists at Dynamichrome. The photos will form part of a book called The Paper Time Machine, by Wolfgang Wilding and Jordan Lloyd, which is currently being crowdsourced
Sarah Gilbert
Sunday 2 October 2016 16.19 BST