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

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

historic map (1855) of New York City with attention to its various wards

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 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.

This photo of the east side of Baxter Street just north of Worth, circa 1871, shows the tenements occupied by many Emigrant Bank customers from the Lansdowne estate in County Kerry.

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

This is a wood engraving of the Bowery Boy Riot in 1857 and shows the "Dead Rabbit" barricade. The caption reads, " View from the "Dead Rabbit" barricade in Bayard Street, taken at the height of the battle by our own artist, who, as spectator, was…

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