Photographs unearthed of first Ellis Island immigrant: report

[AlphaCentauri]

Source: AFP

Photographs of the first immigrant to land at New York's famed Ellis Island have been unearthed almost 120 years after she arrived in the United States as a girl from Ireland, US media said.

Annie Moore disembarked at the tiny island in New York harbor on January 1, 1892, her 15th birthday.

But only now have relatives managed to track down pictures, the New York Times reported.

The pictures show a matronly figure in heavy, plain clothes typical of the period.



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[patrick t. cakes]

1. would be nice to see the actual picture

[Traveling_Home]

3. Here ya go

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/29/nyregion/29annie.html?_r=1

[Webster Green]

5. Well yeah, I saw that one, but its not the picture referenced in the story.

How can someone write a story about a photograph and not include the photo?

[alfredo]

9. Here

[matt819]

16. She's 15? (nt)

[alfredo]

17. Kids grew up real fast during those hard times.

;)

[sakabatou]

28. I'm guessing later picture

and not taken at the time of arrival.

[JustAnotherGen]

24. Wow

I went out to Ellis Island with my mom this summer and we got a pic of her 'statue'. The statue really looks like a 'little' girl. She was a grown woman for sure!

[alfredo]

25. Not sure if there was a picture of her at Ellis Island.

[alfredo]

26. This statue?

http://www.ellisisland.org/genealogy/Annie_Moore.asp


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/14/nyregion/14annie.html

[AlphaCentauri]

27. That is the other Annie the one who die in Texas n/t

[Webster Green]

4. Indeed..

"A picture is worth a thousand words" surely applies to this story.

I followed all the links I could find, but no picture. Weird! :wtf:

[proudohioan]

6. It WOULD be nice to see the actual picture.

I'm a nut about genealogy!

[patrick t. cakes]

2. pic of anne moore.

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/12/29/nyregion/29annie_CA0.html

shes supposed to be 15 in that photo?

[proudohioan]

7. I don't think that's the photo that they're talking about...

although why in the world anyone would write an article about a particular photo and then not show it is beyond me?????

[hayu_lol]

8. Life was not easy in those days for women in Ireland...

in those days, they aged rapidly. Not of course, any better for them in the black holes that were the slums of NYC(Four Corners).

Many women of that period were somewhat massive in appearance(fashion and style).

[AlphaCentauri]

10. Probably she wasn't the typical barbie of a magazine's front page

that make her more human in nature.

[PGHBOOGER]

11. Read The Article...

No where does the NY Times article state that the pictures unearthed of Annie Moore are from the DAY she arrived at Ellis Island. It says the family discovered photos of Annie, the first immigrant to arrive there, but it does not say the photos are of her arrival. Obviously, they were taken many years later.

[Barack_America]

15. Yeah, the critical reading skills are not strong on this thread.

[patrick t. cakes]

22. woops, ya got me there...

The long unseen pictures, one of which was published Tuesday in the New York Times, show an older Moore, by then a matronly figure in heavy, plain clothes typical of the period....

[brooklynite]

12. Was she allowed to have anything in her lap the last hour on the boat?

I'd hate to think they were taking risks....

[geardaddy]

13. +1

:thumbsup:

[WriteDown]

14. From the looks of it....

A whole turkey.

[a la izquierda]

19. Real nice...

my Irish battleaxe of a grandma (or my sisters, for that matter) would knock the crap out of you for that comment.

[WriteDown]

20. That's why I stay away from battleaxes!

:P

She hasn't missed too many meals!

[AlphaCentauri]

18. Her Working Permit and Visa maybe

along with her bank account statement to make sure she was not going to over stay her "Visa".

[Bigmack]

21. No photos of my ancestors coming from Ireland....

they snuck in from Canada. All of them. There is a strong family tradition of not burdening the authorities with too much of our personal information.

[monmouth]

23. That's the truth, eh? My grandmother retired and decided she wanted

to do a geneology search, my father told her it would cost a fortune to keep it all quiet. I relate to what you're saying....

[damntexdem]

29. What, a photograph of a native American thousands of years ago!

Oh, of official immigration to the U.S. So confusing. ;-)

[dysfunctional press]

30. native americans didn't immgrate via ellis island...

not so confusing when you pay attention.