SS "Wittekind"

Description:

Photograph of the North German steamership SS "Wittekind" docked at Union Pier. Many passengers are visible leaning over the top railing waiting to desembark as they watch their luggage being unloaded. Printed from a glass plate negative held in the Museum Archives.

The November 5 edition of the Evening Post reported that more than 400 immigrants came from Bremen and "were destined to towns in all parts of the State" to work in the mills, farms and households.

• Title: SS "Wittekind"
• Photographer: Paine, Morton Brailsford, 1883-1940
• Date: November 4, 1906

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• Collection: Photograph Collection
• Object Name: Morton Brailsford Paine Photographs
• Object Id: MK 18687

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