Emigrant Savings Bank records, 1841-1945
Contributors: New York Public Library.; Scholarly Resources Inc.
Publisher: Scholarly Resources Inc.
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Wilmington, Del
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 23
Subjects: Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank -- Archives.; Irish Emigrant Society of New York -- Archives.; Irish -- New York (State) -- New York.; Irish Americans -- New York (State) -- New York.; Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Societies, etc.; Ireland -- Emigration and immigration -- New York (State) -- New York.
Other titles: Emigrant Savings Bank. Records MSS
Description: Reproduces selected records of the Emigrant Savings Bank, particularly records pertaining to the Irish Emigrant Society and data about the bank's depositors and borrowers. Irish Emigrant Society records, 1841-1933, include minutes of the board of trustees and finance committee, and an account ledger. Bank records contain information about deposit accounts, real estate, buildings, and investments. Society and bank records document the social history of Irish immigrants on either side of the Atlantic, with occasional references to German and French immigrants. Deposit accounts often contain detailed personal and genealogical information about individual depositors.
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