Emigrants Gallery

Barnardos Children emigrating to Canada

Two hundred and fifty boys and girls from Dr. Barnardo's Home at Riverside Station, Liverpool on their way to Canada. So many Barnardo's children emigrated to Canada that one in eleven Canadians today can trace their ancestors back to Barnardo's. Date: 1903

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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Wilson, NC, USA - Oettingers The Dependable Store

Wilson, North Carolina, USA - Oettinger's - The Dependable Store. The leading store of the town with the slogan: "It pays to Deal at Oettinger's". The card features a delightful motto on the reverse: "GOOD WILL is the disposition of the pleased customer to return to the place where he has been well treated" (U. S. Supreme Court). The first Jews to settle in Wilson were the brothers Henry and Leopold Oettinger, who opened a store in Wilson in 1860 after emigrating from Wurttemberg. Date: 1906

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Departure of Irish emigrants

Poverty-stricken Irish folk waiting on the railway platform for a train to take them to the port for embarkation to America or elsewhere. The agricultural depression in Ireland at this time, drove thousands abroad to begin their lives again in the New World. Date: 1881

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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