TONY SWEET (American, 20th Century). Untitled, 2006. Chromogenic Print . 11 x 17 inches (27.9 x 43.2 cm). Signed Tony Swee...

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TONY SWEET (American, 20th Century)
Untitled, 2006
Chromogenic Print
11 x 17 inches (27.9 x 43.2 cm)
Signed Tony Sweet
Benefitting Save Ellis Island


After successful careers as a jazz musician and educator, and professional magician, Tony Sweet settled on photography as his chosen means for personal expression.

This photograph is offered in auction to support the ongoing effort by Save Ellis Island (SEI). SEI's mission is to preserve a powerful symbol of America's freedom and opportunity, giving it relevance to a much more diverse audience of citizens and visitors than ever passed through its doors a century or more ago. Ellis Island is shared by millions more than those who can trace a relative directly through Ellis Island and the campaign for Ellis Island plans to bring that narrative, broadly interpreted, to all.

Save Ellis Island is the National Park Service non-profit fundraising partner for the preservation and interpretation of the vacant and deteriorating historic buildings of Ellis Island. SEI together with the National Park Service have successfully raised over $60 million to stabilize all thirty of the abandoned buildings, repair, restore and maintain the Ferry Corridors, Ferry Building and Laundry Building on this great monument to freedom.

Save Ellis Island

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