Ellis Island Sami woman
The Sami are one of the indigenous people of northern Europe, spread across northern Sweden, Norway, Finland and the Kola Peninsula of Russia. I think she looks a little Finnish, and that's my heritage, that's why I care about this pic of a pic.
(7/12/2011) The photo was taken by Augustus Sherman, and this image seems to be getting a lot of traffic from this site, due to an article wondering who the woman in the photo is, I gather: