Images Dated 16th December 2004

Between Decks on an Emigrant Ship, 1850

Engraving showing distressed needlewomen below decks on an emigrant ship, with their belongings, making themselves confortable before the voyage begins. A charity set up by Mr Sidney Herbert and the Rev Quekett rescued many of these girls from poverty and enabled them to start a new life in Australia

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Dinner on an Australian Emigrant Ship, 1849

Engraving showing dinner taking place in the forecastle of an Australian emigrant ship, 1849. The forecastle is an elevated platform in the bows of the ship and can be seen, in this engraving, as a quiet place to take dinner on board a crowded ship. A man in the foreground is eating while his lady companion is smoking a pipe. The ships bell can be seen at top right

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Lady Passenger on a Trans-Atlantic Steamship, 1888

Illustration showing a female passenger on the trans-Atlantic steamship Moselle, relaxing on her deckchair with a book, 1888. Dressed in the height of fashion, with an elaborate hat, the woman appears to have received a small piece of debris in the eye, hence the original caption: Those wretched stokers, A Black in the Eye

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