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Table of Emigrant Savings Bank Account Records
This sample of account records from Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank provides evidence about the lives of immigrants living in New York City during the mid-nineteenth century. All account holders included in this sample lived in the Five Points [...]
Tags: Five Points, Irish Immigration
Item Type: Quantitative Data
Historical Era: Antebellum America (1816-1860)
Statistics about Life in Five Points
Five Pointers were destitute when they arrived and settled in New York’s poorest and most run-down neighborhood. On top of this, Irish Five Pointers worked for some of the lowest wages in the most dangerous and unstable jobs in the city. [...]
Tags: Five Points, Irish Immigration
Item Type: Quantitative Data
Historical Era: Antebellum America (1816-1860)