Historic Photos and Prints
Title
Historic Photos and Prints
Subject
photos and images
Language
English
Type
images
Collection Items
Cabin Replica County Kerry
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.
Dublin
This image of Faithful Place in central Dublin dates from about 1900, but it would not have looked very different fifty years earlier when the Famine emigrants left Ireland for America.
Cork
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.
Cavan
Ireland's County Cavan, which sent many emigrants to New York, is a lake-filled region of north-central Ireland.
Corlears Hook
Corlears Hook as it looked around 1875 from a tower of the still incomplete Brooklyn Bridge.
Steerage Compartment, 1851
rendering of a steerage compartment from The Illustrated London News, 1851; caption reads, " Emigration Vessel--Between Decks."