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photo of Matthew Brennan

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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."

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.