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| Notes about this image: | "Half Past Eight O'Clock...The Cook enraged at the Steerage Passengers being late with their Breakfast on Board the Ship Acasta, Dec. 1824; A Hasty Sketch taken by J. Bear on his Voyage to America." Rapid growth of New York in 1820s; population increased 30% between 1820 and 1825; more than 16,000 new houses built in 1824 alone. |
| Citation: | Courtesy of The Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Ave. at 103rd St., New York, NY 10029. Our thanks to the Museum. In John A. Kouwenhoven, Columbia Historical Portrait of New York, 1953. 8.6.3 |
| Standard: | 8.6-3.00 the reasons for the wave of immigration from Northern Europe to the U.S. and growth in the number, size, and spatial arrangements of cities (e.g., Irish immigrants and the Great Irish Famine) |
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