AMERICAN DREAMS Photographs by Augustus Frederick Sherman of families arriving at Ellis Island in the early 20th century are on view at the Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island Immigration Museum. Sherman began work as a clerk at Ellis Island in 1892, the year that the “Golden Door” was established. The photographs on view span from 1905 to 1920. His photography captured an impressive swath of the “huddled masses” that flocked to America during those years: a row of Cossack men with swords and tall boots, a group of Borana people from southern Ethiopia, Scottish children clad in kilts, a Dutch family with their 11 children in a neat line, Romanian shepherds playing long flutes, a Canadian woman who had dressed as a man for 15 years, and Russian Jewish anarchist Emma Goldman. Many of Sherman’s photographs captured immigrants detained for medical reasons – a Russian giant, a South Asian man with a set of arms and legs conjoined to his abdomen, and a Burmese dwarf among them. Seen clockwise from above, are an Algerian man, a Guadeloupe woman, and a Ruthenian woman from the former Kingdom of Ruthenia, which stretched to northeastern Romania from Ukraine. The exhibit was organized by the Aperture Foundation. Through September 6, daily, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., Ellis Island Immigration Museum, Liberty Island, accessible by Circle Line Ferry, departing from Battery Park, 212-363-3200, free admission, ferry fees $10 general, $8 seniors, $4 children under 12. Please go to www.nps.gov/stli for transporation information.

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