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Emigrants leaving Queenstown for New York / M.F. – Antique Print

Emigrants leaving Queenstown for New York / M.F., [published 1874] — antique engraving
Emigrants leaving Queenstown for New York / M.F., [published 1874]. Antique engraving from the New York City 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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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of Emigrants leaving Queenstown for New York / M.F.. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Queenstown, the harbor town on Ireland's south coast now called Cobh, was one of the last Irish ports many emigrants saw before crossing the Atlantic. This wood engraving, published in *Harper's Weekly* on September 26, 1874, takes departure from that harbor as its subject, with passengers bound for New York. The route carried large numbers of Irish people in the decades after the Great Famine, and the 1870s were a steady stretch of that movement. The print is worth a close look as a record of how an American illustrated weekly chose to show emigration.

Created / published[published 1874]
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
GenrePeriodical illustrations 1870-1880.Wood engravings 1870-1880.
NotesIllus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1874 Sept. 26, pp. 796-797.
SubjectsEmigration & immigration--Irish--New York (State)--1870-1880. Arrivals & departures--Irish--New York (State)--1870-1880.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,274 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-182253

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