GSC Saturdays are back on April 25th! 🎭✨

There’s still time for your young person to get involved, build confidence, and perform in the castle gardens this term—don’t miss out! For ages 7-18 (split into two groups)

Book here - https://ow.ly/vC8m50YF15m

#GSC20 #GSCSaturdays #CastleGardens

An Irish "type" can be seen in the center wearing a tall hat, holding a glass, and standing near the soldier with the whiskey keg and two glasses. This is the classic #stereotype of the Irish immigrant — apish and a drinker. ...’
#immigration #CastleGardens #Manhattan

http://www.maggieblanck.com/Immigration.html

#OTD in 1865
*Harpers Weekly* on #immigration and the immigrant processing center at #CastleGardens, #BatteryPark, #Manhattan
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‘Outside the Depot’
#HarpersWeekly, September 2, 1865
Collection of Maggie Land Blanck
#illustration #illustrationart

It's time for #blueskyartshow again and what better picture to start the day than this?
May I present the #shining, golden statue of the goddess #Artemis at #schlossschwetzingen
Or do you prefer to call her #Diana?

#photography #photoartist #castlegardens #baroque #baroquesculpture

#OTD in 1926
'KEEP OFF'!
#TheNewYorkerCover, August 14, 1926
Ilonka Karasz
#BatteryPark with the #Aquarium (previously Fort Clinton, Castle Garden [theatre], and #CastleGardens [immigration processing center]) and, beyond, #EllisIsland.
#IlonkaKarasz #Manhattan

‘Landing Immigrants at Castle Gardens’
*Harper's New Monthly Magazine*, June 1884
#NewYorkCity #immigration #CastleGardens #immigrants