The photograph, the source, and the unknowns
Two Dutch toddlers on the Ellis Island stairs, holding religious tracts. Who gave them the tracts, and who they became, the record does not say.
- Archive caption
- Two children from the Island of Marken
- Creator
- Augustus Francis Sherman
- Date
- circa 1905-1914
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons (DPLA / University of Colorado Boulder contribution; NYPL original)
- Rights
- Photographer died 1925; created 1905-1914; NYPL/DPLA mark public domain · Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Source record
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Augustus Francis Sherman. “Two children from the Island of Marken.” circa 1905-1914. Wikimedia Commons (DPLA / University of Colorado Boulder contribution; NYPL original). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dutch_siblings_from_the_Island_of_Marken,_holding_religious_tracts_-_DPLA_-_cb27892ef2778ddda7f91fad9222347e.jpg. Viewed via Nostalgia Museum artifact 740, reviewed 22 August 2026. https://getnostalgia.ai/museum/artifact/OBDCTXEkXJQR5s1q/740/face/920
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