The photograph, the source, and the unknowns
Printed in The New York Times that Sunday, captioned 'Hungarian Gypsies all of whom were deported.' The only photograph on this wall where we know how the story ended: the door did not open.
- Archive caption
- Hungarian group, photographed before deportation
- Creator
- Augustus Francis Sherman
- Date
- 1905-02
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons (DPLA / University of Colorado Boulder contribution; NYPL original)
- Rights
- Photographer died 1925; published in the New York Times Feb 1905 (pre-1930 US publication); NYPL marks no known restrictions · Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Source record
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Augustus Francis Sherman. “Turned away at the door: a Hungarian group, February 1905.” 1905-02. Wikimedia Commons (DPLA / University of Colorado Boulder contribution; NYPL original). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Group_photograph_of_Hungarian_immigrants_-_DPLA_-_15cdc52f69b95a0dea8746982d33d643.jpg. Viewed via Nostalgia Museum artifact 735, reviewed 22 August 2026. https://getnostalgia.ai/museum/artifact/OBDCTXEkXJQR5s1q/735/face/906
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