{"id":5983,"date":"2016-12-19T10:00:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T15:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=5983"},"modified":"2016-12-15T09:53:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T14:53:07","slug":"augustus-sherman-at-steven-kasher-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/19\/augustus-sherman-at-steven-kasher-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Augustus Sherman at Steven Kasher Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Ellis Island clerk from 1892 to 1925, Augustus Sherman was uniquely positioned to document immigration in all its diversity. Among his photographic portraits of Scottish boys in kilts and Romanian shepherds, this shot of a Russian German family is a standout as each family member stoically waits first for the camera and later, for a new life in North Dakota. (At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevenkasher.com\/exhibitions\/augustus-sherman-aliens-or-americans\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Kasher Gallery<\/a> in Chelsea through Dec 23<sup>rd<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5984\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5984\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=5984\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5984\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5984\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/augustus_sherman-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"Augustus Sherman, Jakob Mittelstadt and Family, Russian German, ex SS \u2018Pretoria.\u2019 Admitted to go to Kullen, ND, May 9, 1905, vintage gelatin silver print, printed ca. 1905, 4 \u00be x 6 \u00bd inches, typed inscription \u201cGerman family.\u201d\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/augustus_sherman-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/augustus_sherman-1200x887.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5984\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Augustus Sherman, Jakob Mittelstadt and Family, Russian German, ex SS \u2018Pretoria.\u2019 Admitted to go to Kullen, ND, May 9, 1905, vintage gelatin silver print, printed ca. 1905, 4 \u00be x 6 \u00bd inches, typed inscription \u201cGerman family.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Ellis Island clerk from 1892 to 1925, Augustus Sherman was uniquely positioned to document immigration in all its diversity. Among his photographic portraits of Scottish boys in kilts and Romanian shepherds, this shot of a Russian German family is a standout as each family member stoically waits first for the camera and later, for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/19\/augustus-sherman-at-steven-kasher-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Augustus Sherman at Steven Kasher Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,27,4],"tags":[6639,8,147,18,6635,117,571,6638,432,6084,3448,6637,12,2864,17,6636,16],"class_list":["post-5983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-6639","tag-art","tag-art-tour","tag-artist","tag-augustus-sherman","tag-chelsea","tag-chelsea-tour","tag-ellis-island","tag-gallery-tour","tag-immigrant","tag-immigration","tag-jakob-mittelstadt","tag-new-york","tag-photograph","tag-photography","tag-steven-kasher-gallery","tag-tour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-1yv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5985,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5983\/revisions\/5985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}