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steerage compartment of passenger ship

Montezuma. Painting created by Antonio Jacobsen in 1917 of the Montezuma, a ship that carried many Irish immigrants to New York.

From Harpers Weekly, this image depicts a tenement house fire on 45th Street in New York on March 28, 1860.

Kate and Sandy Sullivan, emigrants from the Lansdowne estate in County Kerry, Ireland, converted a tenement apartment at 35 Baxter Street, just north of Worth, into a 'boarding house.' Like all Famine emigrants, the Sullivans knew that running their…

scanned image of a deposit ledger for Mary Mulvey from the EISB

scanned image of a Test Book from the Emigrant Savings Book

photo of Matthew Brennan

This scanned page from the New York Times (May 1895) announces the retirement of Timothy Golden, a NYC police officer and customer of the EISB.

This drawing of Irish famine victims by Cork artist James Mahony (1810–1879) was commissioned by The Illustrated London News in 1847.

Published in Harpers Weekly (July 23, 1870), this depicts the interior of the Bowery Savings Bank.