Which is a compound sentence?

 - According to many scholars, the 1798 publication of Lyrical Ballads by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth began the romantic period in English literature.
 - On the ferry to Ellis Island, Eve took a photograph, and now it's sitting in a frame on her dresser at home.
The first sentence is the compound sentence. It is made up of two independent clauses joined by the coordinating conjunction and.
On the ferry to Ellis Island, Eve took a photograph, and now it's sitting in a frame on her dresser at home.