This is a chapter from Contributions to the History of Economic Thought: Essays in Honour of R. D. C. Black, Antoin Murphy and Renee Prendergast, eds. London, 2000.
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.
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."