LC control no. | nr 00001418 |
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Personal name heading | Sherman, Augustus F., 1865-1925 |
Variant(s) | Sherman, Augustus, 1865-1925 |
Associated country | U.S. |
Birth date | 18650709 |
Death date | 19250218 |
Place of birth | Lynn, Pa. |
Profession or occupation | Photographer |
Found in | Portraits of immigrants at Ellis Island, New York, 1904-1926 (Augustus Sherman) William Williams papers, 1902-1943 (Williams was Commissioner of Immigration for the Port of New York ca. 1902-1913; papers include scrapbooks of photos. of immigrants by Augustus Sherman) NYPL files (Sherman, Augustus Francis, 1859?-1925; correspondence with public library in Tunkhannock, Pa.: b. 1865, d. 1925) NY Times, Feb. 21, 1925 (Augustus F. Sherman, veteran official of the Immigration Bureau, d. Wed. [Feb. 18], at age of 59) Wikipedia, Apr. 5, 2012 (Augustus Frederick Sherman worked as a clerk at Ellis Island in the years 1892-1925. He was an untrained, yet highly gifted photographer who created hundreds of images documenting the new arrivals to America. Born on July 9, 1865, in Lynn, Pennsylvania) |