Historic Photos and Prints Gallery

The interior of a boarding house owned and operated by Emigrant Savings Bank depositors Sandy and Kate Sullivan

Notice of retirement of Timothy Golden, a New York City police officer and Emigrant Savings Bank depositor

depiction of famine victims by Cork artist James Mahony (1810–1879), commissioned by The Illustrated London News, 1847

This block of Worth Street west of Baxter in the Sixth Ward housed hundreds of Famine immigrants, especially those from the Lansdowne estate on southwest Kerry.

This Berenice Abbott photo shows the hulking gas tanks that stored the gas from the New York Gas Works (The buildings in the foreground of the photo were built after the Famine immigrants arrived.).

Many Irish immigrants, especially those from Castlegregory in Kerry, took jobs shoveling coal into these huge "retorts" at the New York Gas Works.

Although this image of the Five Points neighborhood was painted twenty years before the Famine Irish arrived, the image conveys a sense of why the neighborhood was so notorious.

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.

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.

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.