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Emigrants at Cork Quay, Illustrated London News, 1851. Report: ’The accompanying is a sketch of a party of emigrants who have arrived on the quay after a long journey, in some cases close upon one hundred miles: - They are stretched and tumbled about upon boxes and straw to seek some few moments’ repose.’
Emigration Agents Office, Illustrated London News, 1851. Report: ’The companion sketch of the row at the office-door, where some of the emigrants are seen paying their passage-money, will show the extent to which the ruffianly touters and mancatchers carry their interference, and from which they are only obliged to desist upon the application of superior force.’
Departure for Liverpool, Illustrated London News, 1851
Emigration Vessel, Illustrated London News, 1851. Report: ’Each party gets so many square inches to her or his share of ship, as the case may be, and where, if I am given rightly to understand, man woman, and child are obliged to huddle together like pigs at a fair.’"]