Ellis Island Photographs from NY Public Library

This CBS news link contains a brief collection of photographs from Ellis Island that, CBS News explains, have been recently digitized and made publicly available by the New York Public Library.  The photographs come from the collection of William Williams, the Commissioner of Immigration at Ellis Island from the early 1900s, and were taken by Augustus Sherman and Edwin Levick.

As one of the slide show frames notes, “Looking into the eyes in the mostly somber portraits, one sees everything from trepidation, hope and confusion.”

-JKoh