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| Picture No | 10219539 |
| Date | 1874 |
| Description | Irish emigrants leaving Queenstown Harbour |
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Detailed harbour scene with hundreds of emigrants waiting for the boat for New York, steam ships in the background. In the foreground barefoot young lads are expectantly waiting, ladies are buying lucky heather and rosaries for the voyage and would-be emigrants wait for their names to be called by the White Star Line officers.
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| Source | . 1874. p 220-1. By Michael Fitzgerald. |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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