IRISH FAMINE.

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Advertisement for Grinnell's line of packet ships sailing from Ireland to New York. An advertising poster assuring American patrons that Bowman, Grinnell & Co. could be trusted to relocate their relatives from Ireland in comfort. The advertisement lists the addresses of the company's agents, the names of their ships, and the procedures for emigrating from Ireland.Throughout the Great Famine of 1845 to 1852, many companies took advantage of emigrants' desperation to force them to travel in overcrowded and understocked vessels and coffin ships or to scam them out of their money. As printed on this item, "Bowman, Grinnell & Co. have seen and witnessed with feelings of regret, for a long time, that something was necessary for the protection of the Irish people in the United States sending their remittances to their friends in Ireland... from the numberless disappointments they have lately met with, and in many instances, the heartless frauds that have been practiced on them, by parties professing to bring them out on ships over which they had no control, or with which they had no connexion".Bowman, Grinnell & Co. was formed in the 1850s by William Bowman and Robert Minturn Grinnell of the Grinnell, Minturn & Co. shipping line, owners of the famous Flying Cloud clipper ship. It claims that their ships, listed with their captains' names, were fast, well-ventilated, and comfortably furnished, that their drafts could be cashed anywhere in Ireland, and that baggage would be transporte

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