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Emigration vessel -- Between Decks"" – Vintage Print

Emigration vessel -- Between Decks"", [ca. 1850?] — antique engraving
Emigration vessel -- Between Decks"", [ca. 1850?]. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Emigration vessel -- Between Decks"" comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Emigration vessel -- Between Decks""

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This engraving gives a close view of the sleeping quarters between decks on an emigrant ship, with tiers of narrow berths packed under low beams. Scenes like this were common in the 1840s and 1850s, when large numbers of people left Britain and Ireland for North America and Australia, many of them in steerage on sailing vessels. Britain's Passenger Act of 1842 set minimum space and provisioning rules, partly in response to reports of overcrowding and disease at sea. The record's date is uncertain, so the print is best read as a picture of the period.

Created / published[ca. 1850?]
Medium1 print : engraving?
NotesIllus. in: The Illustrated London News? This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,224 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-142747

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