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Picture No 10024700
Date 1844
Description Emigrants at dinner
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Emigrants on their way to Australia eat their dinner below decks. The Illustrated London News states that 'a government grant was made to assist families and single men, agricultural labourers, shepherds, carpenters, smiths, wheelwrights, bricklayers and masons, being of good character, to emigrate to Australia ... amongst these were to be included a certain portion of single women and girls between 18 and 30 years of age who had been in domestic or farm service.'
Source Engraving by an unnamed artist in the Illustrated London News, 13th April 1844
Credit © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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