{"product_id":"ellis-island-wrought-iron-earrings","title":"Ellis Island Wrought Iron Earrings","description":"\u003cp\u003eBetween 1892 and 1954, twelve million people passed through a single building on a small island in New York Harbor. They carried almost nothing. What greeted them — before the questions, before the medical exams, before the new names scrawled into ledgers — was architecture. Soaring arched windows, vaulted ceilings clad in Guastavino tile, and everywhere, the ornamental wrought ironwork that lined the registry hall like a quiet declaration: you have arrived somewhere that was built to receive you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ironwork at Ellis Island is one of those details that most photographs miss. It wasn't purely structural. It was decorative, deliberate — scrolled and curved in patterns that borrowed from Beaux-Arts tradition but carried something distinctly American in their openness and repetition. The craftsmen who forged those railings and gates were themselves often recent immigrants, shaping metal into the visual language of a threshold between old worlds and new ones. It's an art form that tends to disappear into the background of grander architectural narratives, but stand close to it and you feel its weight, its intention, its warmth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese earrings carry that ironwork forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSilver-plated brass captures the scrolled wrought iron motif in miniature, with a single faux pearl suspended at the base — a nod to the harbor itself, to passage over water, to something precious held gently in place. At just 1½ inches including the ear wire and a featherlight 1 gram per pair, they sit close and quiet, the kind of earring you forget you're wearing until someone leans in to look. The ear wires are hypoallergenic, and each pair arrives boxed and ready.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMade in the USA by David Howell \u0026amp; Co.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Howell and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43526872793135,"sku":"028-E-10014","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0604\/1065\/8863\/files\/63517FB6-D5C3-4093-A7BF-DC4EB8FC2B84.jpg?v=1736706079","url":"https:\/\/haroldandhazel.live\/products\/ellis-island-wrought-iron-earrings","provider":"Harold \u0026 Hazel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}