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#14 Boarding House of Sandy and Kate Sullivan.tif
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…

#15Tenement Fire, 1860 HW 4.7.60.jpeg
From Harpers Weekly, this image depicts a tenement house fire on 45th Street in New York on March 28, 1860.

Montezuma by Antonio Jacobsen 1917.jpg
Montezuma. Painting created by Antonio Jacobsen in 1917 of the Montezuma, a ship that carried many Irish immigrants to New York.

#17 sailing ship interior steerage compartment.tif
steerage compartment of passenger ship

Fig.7_5_TA_ILN_Steerage1851.tif
rendering of a steerage compartment from The Illustrated London News, 1851; caption reads, " Emigration Vessel--Between Decks."

#4 IrishCivilParishes1841.pdf
A break-down of civil parishes in Ireland in 1841

#5 Ireland 1841 pop by parish corrected with boundaries.pdf
shows the population of each parish in Ireland in 1841

#6 All Depositors with Cities.pdf
locates where EISB customers emigrated from by Irish parish

#7 Pre46 Depositors with Cities.pdf
EISB customers who immigrated to the US before 1846; displayed by Irish parish

#8 Post45 Depositors with Cities.pdf
EISB customers, by Irish parish, who immigrated to the United States after 1846
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