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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…

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

steerage compartment of passenger ship

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

A page from the 1850 census showing Peter J. Faye's name and occupation. His occupation, here, is listed as "servant."

This page is from the City of New York's 1855 census book and shows the name of Peter J. Faye, a customer of the EISB.

This notice appeared in the New York Times on Monday, June 2, 1884; it describes both the life and funeral of Peter J Faye.

This is a clipping from The New York Herald announcing the death and celebrating the life of Peter J. Faye, a customer of the EISB. The title of the article reads, " Old Peter Faye: The Death of a Doorkeeper which even Kings of Wall Street Will…