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Sailing Ship Interior, Steerage Compartment
steerage compartment of passenger ship
Steerage Compartment, 1851
rendering of a steerage compartment from The Illustrated London News, 1851; caption reads, " Emigration Vessel--Between Decks."
Tenement House Fire
From Harpers Weekly, this image depicts a tenement house fire on 45th Street in New York on March 28, 1860.
Test Book
scanned image of a Test Book from the Emigrant Savings Book
The Boarding House of Sandy and Kate Sullivan
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…
Timothy Golden
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.
