ABSTRACT

A new dataset created from the first 18,000 savings accounts opened (from 1850 to 1858) at the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank in New York City is described. The bank was founded by Irish Americans, and most of its depositors in its first decade of operations were recent Irish immigrants. The data offer a unique window on both savings behavior by the poor and not-so-poor in antebellum New York and on how emigrants who came primarily from rural parts of Ireland adapted to urban life. They also contain much that is new on the regional origins of mid-nineteenth century Irish immigrants and on their settlement patterns in New York.

摘要

描述了一个新的数据集，该数据集是从纽约市移民工业储蓄银行开设的第一个18,000个储蓄帐户（从1850年到1858年）创建的。该银行是由爱尔兰裔美国人创立的，在其运营的头十年中，大多数存款人都是最近的爱尔兰移民。这些数据提供了一个独特的窗口，既可以了解纽约战前穷人和不太穷人的储蓄行为，也可以了解主要来自爱尔兰农村地区的移民如何适应城市生活。在19世纪中叶的爱尔兰移民的区域起源及其在纽约的定居模式中，它们还包含许多新内容。