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Table of Emigrant Savings Bank Account Records

This sample of account records from Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank provides evidence about the lives of immigrants living in New York City during the mid-nineteenth century. All account holders included in this sample lived in the Five Points neighborhood of New York City's Sixth Ward. 

Source | Emigrant Savings Bank (New York City, NY: 1852-1860), data available from Tales of Five Points: Working-Class Life in Nineteenth-Century New York, Volume 3, Appendix V.  
Creator | Emigrant Savings Bank
Item Type | Quantitative Data
Cite This document | Emigrant Savings Bank, “Table of Emigrant Savings Bank Account Records,” SHEC: Resources for Teachers, accessed March 19, 2024, https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/1239.

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