Which is a compound sentence?

 - On the ferry to Ellis Island, Maggie took a photograph, and now it's sitting in a frame on her dresser at home.
 - According to many scholars, the 1798 publication of Lyrical Ballads by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth began the romantic period in English literature.
The second 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, Maggie took a photograph, and now it's sitting in a frame on her dresser at home.