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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.

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 Test Book from the Emigrant Savings Book

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

rendering of a steerage compartment from The Illustrated London News, 1851; caption reads, " Emigration Vessel--Between Decks."

steerage compartment of passenger ship

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

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