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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 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…

This replica of a Famine-era cabin sits in Gleninchiquin Park in the parish of Tuosist in southwest County Kerry. Hundreds of the parish's residents emigrated to New York in the 1850s.

Ireland's County Cavan, which sent many emigrants to New York, is a lake-filled region of north-central Ireland.

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

This image of Cornmarket Street in the city of Cork dates from about 1900, but the square would not have looked very different fifty years earlier.

Corlears Hook as it looked around 1875 from a tower of the still incomplete Brooklyn Bridge.

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

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