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locates where EISB customers emigrated from by Irish parish

shows the population of each parish in Ireland in 1841

A break-down of civil parishes in Ireland in 1841

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

steerage compartment of passenger ship

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

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

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 deposit ledger for Mary Mulvey from the EISB

scanned image of a Test Book from the Emigrant Savings Book