Abstract
ABSTRACT The following investigation examines the contribution photographer Augustus F. Sherman made to immigration discourse through his early twentieth-century portraiture of Ellis Island immigrants. Sherman’s photographs have been used in both historical and contemporary US press to advance nativist and nostalgic immigration discourse. Using historical archival methods combined with photographic criticism, this article argues that Sherman’s photographs leave behind a legacy of nativist ideology in the US press.
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