page_title: John Wolfe Ambrose
hierarchical_section_title: John Wolfe Ambrose
caption_attribution_description: English: John Wolfe Ambrose--c.1880s Black and White image, 4" x 6" Public domain. Original family portrait photograph, now in the ownership of a John Wolfe Ambrose descendant. A reprinted original was found at Cornell University Olin Library, in the cited material: "John Wolfe Ambrose." The National Cyclopedia of American Biography. New York. James T. White &amp; Co., Vol. 24, pp. 132–133. NOTE: the digital version of this same image, which has now been made available online through Google Digitized, is watermarked and copyrighted. Hence, that image is not part of the public domain. Google digitized its image from a different original library source, housed at the University of Michigan, as part of an expensive project, meant as a way to make numerous books available online to the public for strictly noncommercial, educational, or scholarly purposes.
context_page_description: John Wolfe Ambrose was a poor Irish immigrant boy who grew up to be a brilliant engineer and developer. Because of his efforts, channels within and leading into the New York Harbor were deepened and widened, to handle the largest transatlantic ships, thus allowing New York City's commercial economy to boom and compete in the world marketplace.
context_section_description: John Wolfe Ambrose (born in Newcastle West, Ireland on January 10, 1838) was a poor Irish immigrant boy who grew up to be a brilliant engineer and developer. Because of his efforts, channels within and leading into the New York Harbor were deepened and widened, to handle the largest transatlantic ships, thus allowing New York City's commercial economy to boom and compete in the world marketplace.
caption: John Wolfe Ambrose, c. 1880s
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