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“The Famine, the New York Irish and Their Bank”
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.
Colton Map of NYC and its Wards
historic map (1855) of New York City with attention to its various wards
Emigrant Savings Bank Exterior
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.
Emigrant Savings Bank Interior with Depositors, 1882
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."