Louis Takács

How and why we look at immigrants, past and present, matters. If we can give them their names back, we can look into/beyond the photos, and not just at them. Great to have a blast from the past and conversation with @PhotoDetective See it at: youtu.be/o6NDee7v33w

Studia Romologica 18:2025 now out. Includes a Polish translation of a chapter I wrote on Augustus Sherman's "Serbian Gypsies" Roma portraits taken at @StatueEllisFdn. Yeah! online.fliphtml5.com/Samudaripen/ez…

@Najimeddine1 @menavisualss My pleasure! I hope it's an entry point for more to research and learn.

@takacs @menavisualss You're welcome. It's you that we should thank for this article and your research on this man.

The first recorded Moroccan immigrant in USA, 1913.

@Najimeddine1 @menavisualss Thanks for giving the source @Najimeddine1 and @menavisualss for sharing the photo! I researched and wrote this short article. If anyone knows more about the man in the photo, Haroun Riffi Ben Mohamed, or more on the context please let me know.

@menavisualss More information on this man from North of Morroco scalar.usc.edu/works/let-me-g…

A dream come true: Just a little bit over one year after taking a big risk to launch my own walking tour company from scratch, my work now has a feature profile in THE NATION MAGAZINE!!! Check it out!!! thenation.com/article/societ…

@AsadFromNYC @YOBounab @Chrysographer @AsadFromNYC great to connect! Just to note that I've seen at least 20 Algerian immigrants to the US, circa 1910 stating that they were heading to a friend/contact at 109 Washington. I can compile some solid data here.

@YOBounab @Chrysographer @takacs I realize that Louis's work has been shared with me before. Great to connect with the guy behind it. I will now include it as a reference along with your article on future tours. Hope to have you on one soon!

This is a really cool story by @YOBounab: Between 1905-1925, Augustus Sherman took hundreds of portraits of immigrants at Ellis Island. What do those images tell us now about the America of yesterday and the America of today? newlinesmag.com/essays/the-ame…

🦋Migration is Freedom🦋 A thread 🧵⤵️ As the presidential elections inch closer, MiSC scholars have gathered recently to discuss the potential future of immigration in the US, considering the lessons history has taught us about restricting freedom of movement & asylum. 1/11

@genius_sv3a3u I'm curious, how did you determine his identity? The original caption was "Oct-1911 The Greek Soldier", so this fits. See line 11 on the ship's manifest. He was heading to Chicago.

@genius_sv3a3u Here's another view of him

Ellis Island Immigrants: Greek Soldier ca. 1911, Kostas Androutsopoulos from Psari, Messinia - Peloponnesus - Kingdom of Greece Photographer: Augustus F. Sherman (American; 1865–1925) ⬇️

Coming soon to the National Archives Catalog! Our team recently finished digitizing over 400 Chinese Exclusion Act case files from the Calexico Substation of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. These files will be available here: catalog.archives.gov/id/5831059

@thesailorsgirl @Channel4 @soomaalhouse Yes, in a way! But for now the emphasis is on orality. Here's first stages and scope: sitaad.info/Projects.

@thesailorsgirl @Channel4 Great that you'll be navigating this underexplored story. I've just been collaborating with @soomaalhouse Archive Fellows-in-residence Leyla Degan and Naima Hassan on the 1914 visit of over 60 Somalis brought to the USA for "exhibition purposes". Looking forward to the doc!

So glad this made it to print! Congratulations, Youcef!

A dream you dream alone is only a dream A dream you dream together is reality

Join the USCIS History Office and Library on Feb. 9 at 1 pm ET for a webinar to explore the photos of Augustus Sherman, an immigration service employee who photographed hundreds of immigrants on Ellis Island from 1905-1925. Learn more: uscis.gov/about-us/our-h…

@marinamaral2 For the woman on the left, I was able to tell the broader story of her journey to the US and Canada in 1911 but unfortunately I wasn't able to determine her name. See: scalar.usc.edu/works/let-me-g…

This is only one out of 249 striking photographs of immigrants arriving at the island that Sherman took between 1905 and 1925.

(Colorized by me) Bavarian man at Ellis Island, c. 1906-1914. Original by Augustus Frederick Sherman, who worked there as a clerk from 1892 to 1925. This is only one out of 249 striking photographs of immigrants arriving at the island that he took between 1905 and 1925.

@marinamaral2 He was Wilhelm Schleich and arrived at Ellis Island on 16 June 1907. Schleich was a miner from Hohenpeißenberg, Germany. Suspected of being a contract laborer, a class explicitly excluded by immigration laws, he was detained for two days and was released on 18 June 1907.

@marinamaral2 Sure, I've uncovered the identity of a number of other subjects in Sherman's work, including some photos you've colorized. If you're interested in learning more, see this part of my project: scalar.usc.edu/works/let-me-g…

@takacs Amazing! Thanks for sharing

A Russian mother with her baby at Ellis Island, by Augustus Frederick Sherman. Look at her eyes.

@marinamaral2 For the record, they were Anna & Minnie Kravitz and they arrived at Ellis Island on 6 April 1908. A story about their arrival was national syndicated. Here's one.

At the time of the photo, the child was 11 months old and weighed 55 pounds (25 kilograms).

@YOBounab @GetMancini @koviebiakolo @candace_pedraza Congratulations, Youcef!

I was awarded the Silurians 2022 Scholarship Award today from the Silurians Press Club, one of the nation’s oldest journalists associations. Big thanks to @GetMancini and @koviebiakolo for nominating me. Congrats to @candace_pedraza also for winning the 2022 Dennis Duggan Prize.

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