Summary: Emigration Agent
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This sketch appeared in the Illustrated London News in 1851. It shows departing emigrants paying for their fares at the emigration agent’s office. Emigration was expensive. By the end of the Famine the cheapest fare to New York was nearly £4. In the 1850s many of those emigrating had received money from relatives who were already in America. Otherwise a poor farmer would finance his family’s fare by selling his crops and livestock.
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