Emigration Collection

Jamaicans on board the Empire Windrush
Jamaican men on board the Empire Windrush who have come to Britain to seek work; some of the men, dressed smartly in jackets and ties, are reading a newspaper

New Zealand travel poster
Poster produced by the Shaw, Saville and Albion Line advertising their passenger liners to New Zealand via the Panama Canal

Poster advertising Canada via Canadian National Railways
Poster for Canadian National Railways, encouraging people to emigrate to Canada to work in farming

Its Mine, Poster, Canada, the right land for the right man, with Canadian National Railways

Canada, the right land for the right man Poster, showing a man farming and harvesting wheat, by Canadian National Railways

American Line Poster advertising cruises from Southampton to New York

Canadian Call to Women White Star Line poster
Poster produced by the White Star Line shipping company encouraging women to emigrate to Canada

Royal Line poster
Poster promoting Royal Line Northern Canadian railway system and Atlantic steamship service, showing a ship crossing the Atlantic on the way to Canada from Bristol

Allan Line to Canada poster
Poster advertising the Royal Mail Allan Line passenger service to and from Canada. Passage can be booked through Sercombe and Hayes, emigration and passenger agents based in Dorchester

Allan Line to Canada poster
Poster advertising the weekly express service to and from Canada with the Allan Line Company. The ships also appear to deliver Royal Mail aswell

Poster advertising a New Zealand Dairy Farm, designed by Frank Newbould for the Empire Marketing Board

Last of England (Colour)
THE LAST OF ENGLAND -the definitive emigration image, showing a couple in pensive mood as their ship leaves the white cliffs of England. She is clutching their baby

Quakers Sail to New Wrld
William Penn and other Quakers sail to the New World in the Welcome

Irish Emigrant Ship
Irish emigrants leaving for a new life in America Date: 1859

Ready made Farms in Western Canada Poster offering a new home in Canada with Canadian Pacific

Emigrate to Canada poster
Poster issued by the Canadian Pacific Company advertising to would be emigrants that they could own their own home in Canada and apply for a ready-made farm

Empire Windrush 1948
The Empire Windrush sails up the English Channel towards Londons Tilbury Docks, carrying 400 Jamaicans who have come to England in search of a new life

Poster advertising Canada to British settlers
Poster for Canadian Pacific, inviting British settlers, married or single, to go to Canada. Help given towards farm purchase. Assisted passages for approved applicants

Cunard Poster advertising cruises from Liverpool to Boston on the Scythia and Laconia cruise ships

Russian Jews in England
Russian refugees in the Poor Jews Temporary Shelter, Leman Street, in the East End of London

Barnardos Children emigrating to Canada
Two hundred and fifty boys and girls from Dr. Barnardos Home at Riverside Station, Liverpool on their way to Canada

Australian packet ship, the Ben Nevis
Australian White Star Line packet ship, the Ben Nevis. Date: 1852

Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, New England, 1620
The Pilgrim Fathers arriving at Plymouth, New England in 1620. Date: 1918

Waifs and Strays Society Emigration Party on SS Doric
A Waifs and Strays Society emigration party bound for Canada on board the SS Doric. The group left Liverpool on 25th April 1924. Date: 1924

Leaving Queenstown
A large crowd of Irish emigrants gather at the harbour at Queenstown ready to depart for a new life in America

Farewell to Donegall
Emigrants Farewell to Donegall - A songsheet

White Star Line Emigration poster
Poster produced by White Star Line encouraging people to " jump to it" for the chance of a lifetime - to emigrate to Canada

Arrivals by German Boat
At the docks: arrivals by a German steamer; men and women, some Jewish, wait on dockside having travelled by boat from Germany

Contemplating Emigration
An Irish farmer contemplates the prospect of a new life in America

Partners there. Image in a series on the benefits of Australia over England, to encourage emigration. Ladies have a choice of partners in Australia. Date: 1863

Want of governesses in Australia
Want of governesses there... Image 10 of a series on the benefits of Australia over England, to encourage emigration. An Australian household's children run amok for want of a governess

Bringing grain to the Elevator for shipment, Western Canada
Bringing grain to the Elevator for shipment in Western Canada - each bag contains about 1 1/2 bushels - each wagon contains 75 to 11 bushels.A postcard promoting (on the reverse)

Emigrating from New York to Ireland. Date: early 1900s

Towing Out Migrant Ship bound for Australia from Germany, Emigration 1850 Date: 1850

Babylonians emigrating from the Tower of Babel
A crowd of Babylonians emigrating from the unfinished Tower of Babel. They ride horses, camels, elephants and waggons, carry baggage and drive cattle. Three angels watch over them

United States. Emigrants on carts heading out West
Emigrants on carts heading out West. Engraving by Vernier. Panorama Universal. History of the United States of America, from 1st edition of Jean B.G

United States. Emigrants on carts heading out West - Vernier
Emigrants on carts heading out West. Engraving by Vernier. Panorama Universal. History of the United States of America, from 1st edition of Jean B.G

EMIGRATION/MODISTE
A modiste there... Image 12 of a series on the benefits of Australia over England & encouraging emigration. Date: 1863

Irish emigrants leaving home 1870
Morning of departure, the Irish emigrants saying goodbye to love ones, to leave for America. Date: 1870

Emigrants to Canada on board ship

Notes relating to Board of Trade Titanic inquiry
RMS Titanic, Captain Maurice Clarke Archive. Typed notes dated 28 April 1912 relating to the Board of Trade enquiry into the Titanic disaster

White Star Line - Make a New Start in Canada
White Star Line - promotional poster, Make a New Start, £10 to Canada, for all Britishers, irrespective of occupation who intend to make their homes in Canada 18. x 12 inches

Orphan boy from the National Children's Homes and Orphanages been sent, thinking that he would have more opportunities there. Date: circa 1908

Launch of the W. S. Lindsay, iron emigrant ship 1852
Launch of the W.S. Lindsay, the new iron emigrant ship, at Willington near Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 30th September 1852. The ship was built entirely for the purpose of emigration. 1852

Extended family on board the Kemusa - April 1921. 1921

Passengers on the rail of the RMS Sacndinavian to Canada
Passengers on the rail of the RMS Scandinavian en route to Canada - 24th September 1920. 1920

National Childrens Home, Edgworth - Emigration Party
The 1899 emigration Canadian emigration party from the National Childrens Home (NCH) branch at Edgworth. Date: 1899

Emigration - Progress and Vicissitudes
Emigration - Detailing the Progress and Vicissitudes of an Emigrant. 19th century

Emigration - Visited by a Settler not the tax gatherer. 19th century

Emigration - Sailing down the St Laurence at 100 degrees. 19th century

Emigration - A melancholy prospect. 19th century

Emigration - on the wide and boundless sea. 19th century

Emigration - Infested by Mosquitoes. 19th century

Emigration - Half a mind to go back again. 19th century

Emigration - Strolling in the Woods. 19th century

Emigration - Fleas and Rats. 19th century

Emigration - Fall into the Hands of Cannibals. 19th century

Emigration - Embarking for America - no more taxes! 19th century

Emigration - Crocodile in the Marsh. 19th century

Emigration - Arrival in Canadian Forest
Emigration - Arrival in the Canadian Forest - no work no eat. 19th century

Emigration - A 12 Months Residence. 19th century

Advert for Queensland, Australia, a call for more people to live and work there. circa 1890

Jamaican immigrants arriving in Britain in the 1950s. Date: 1954

ROMANIAN JEWS EMIGRATE
Romanian Jews at the Gare de Lyon, Paris, on their way to Le Havre where they will embark for America where, they feel sure, there will be no discrimination against Jews. Date: 1892

Picturesque illustration of an Italian Community living off Leather Lane in London

Emigrates just arrived off a steamer at the steps of Irongate, St

The Mayflower - transporting Pilgrim Fathers to New World
The Mayflower carried the Pilgrim Fathers to America in 63 days, reaching New England in December 1620. Date: 1620

MIGRANT SETTLERS ATTACKD
Settlers migrating to the west are attacked by Native Americans : the wagons are formed into a tight cluster round which the predators circle. Date: 1876

SOCIAL ORNITHOLOGY
Social Ornithology, Annual Emigration of Birds - English tourists of various social classes are shown flying, birdlike, across the channel while their Continental counterparts do likewise. Date: 1840s

Italians Arrive New York
The arrival of 2, 447 Italian immigrants at New York Date: 1923

Travel - Emigration - USA
Emigrants leaving Liverpool for America. Date: 1875

House martins gather around a telephone pole before emigrati
House martins gathering around a telephone pole before emigrating

Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, New York
Immigrants await their turn at the Naturalisation Office, New York, America

Inspection of immigrants at Ellis Island, America
Immigrants are inspected at Ellis Island, America

Waifs and Strays Society First 1913 Emigration Party to Cana
The Waifs and Strays Societys first emigration party to Canada of the 1913 season. Boys dressed in overcoats and caps stand in front of a railway carriage. Date: 1913

RMS Victorian
The Royal Mail Ship RMS Victorian, operated by the Allan Line, and one of the vessels used for the emigration of orphaned and pauper children to Canada. Date: Date unknown

Our Western Home, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada
Inmates at the gate of Our Western Home at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, opened in 1869 by emigration promoter Miss Maria Rye. Date: circa 1906

Come down under Australia emigration poster 1926-7
Poster encouraging British emigration to Australia, 1926-7. To the young unemployed miner, come down under and be a digger on the surface. Work, health and happiness on the land in Australia

Macpherson Distributing Home, Knowlton, Quebec
The Distributing Home in Knowlton, Quebec, operated by childrens emigration promoter Miss Annie Macpherson to receive a distribute children she brought to Canada from England

Miss Elizabeth Meiklejohn
Elizabeth Meiklejohn became involved in the work of childrens emigration promoter Annie Macpherson and from 1877 ran the Macpherson distribution home in Knowlton, Ontario. Date: circa 1910

American soldiers returning home with English brides, WW1
American soldiers on board the Aquitania at Liverpool preparing to sail home accompanied by English wives who they had married while in Britain during the First World War

Emigration of the Russian Jews from Liverpool
Emigration of the Russian Jews - the doctor examining steerage passengers before their departure from Liverpool. A scene on board the Guion liner Wisconsin, in the Mersey. Date: 1891

Elizabeth Rye Girls Home, Toronto
The Elizabeth Rye Girls Home, Toronto, one of six established in Canada by the Waifs and Strays Society as receiving homes for the children whose emigration from Britain it organised. Date: 1920s

Emigrant Ship, Denmark
Danish emigrants board a steamship in the harbour, Copenhagen, for travel to America. Date: 1888

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