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This image of Faithful Place in central Dublin dates from about 1900, but it would not have looked very different fifty years earlier when the Famine emigrants left Ireland for America.

Photo of the exterior of the Emigrant Savings Bank's original location at 51 Chambers Street behind City Hall. The bank dates this photo (which the photographer touched up by hand) to 1858.

drawing of the interior of the Emigrants Savings Bank in 1882. The caption reads, "Irish depositors of the Emigrant Savings Bank withdrawing money to send to their suffering relatives in the old country."

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

This drawing in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper of a funeral in New York's Five Points. This shows the tenements on Baxter Street that housed many customers of the EISB.

photo of Matthew Brennan

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

This is a rendering of Alderman Barry's saloon, 488 Pearl St., New York that was published in Harpers Weekly in November 1858.