NWI4890330: Immigrants waiting to enter Castle Garden (present-day Castle Clinton, at the southern tip of Manhattan, New York Harbour) around 1880. In the waiting room, travellers from Europe, applicants for immigration wait in the midst of luggage, trunks and packages, conversations take place, some sleep or smoke, a young woman feeds her baby under a regulatory panel. Colour engraving, 19th century. / Bridgeman Images
NWI4890122: History of immigration in America: European immigrants arriving under contract of employment at a port in the United States, 19th century. The “contract work” bringing wretched workers from Europe who had to give four to seven years of their lives to the plantation in exchange for the payment of their trip to the New World. Colourful engraving of the 19th century. / Bridgeman Images
JEB4892634: Harpsichord - Detail of the case (rosette and roses and lute players). Work by Jean Denis II (17th century), 1648. Body size: 206x76,3x26cm. Gate size: 72x22 cm. Polychrome wood, copper, brassware. Oil on wood. Musee de l'hospice Saint-Roch, Issoudun (M.H. class in 1987). Mandatory mention: / Bridgeman Images