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where to buy a ticket for passage to america in victorian london, 1887

Apr 09, 2010 15:37

I'm basically going to be repeating question no. 3 on this entry from March 2008, for which I apologize, but the comments didn't really provide any satisfactory answers. It's been twenty-some years since then, though ( Read more... )

1880-1889, ~travel: sea travel, uk: history: victorian era

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emily_shore April 10 2010, 00:45:34 UTC

A good counterpart to Charles Booth, although it was written slightly earlier:

London Labour and the London Poor

emily_shore April 10 2010, 01:33:04 UTC

Another invaluable source for this sort of thing is old guidebooks. I highly recommend Baedeker's "London and Its Environs," which you can find in various nineteenth century editions.

1881 is here

stormwreath April 10 2010, 01:18:42 UTC

The main steamship lines had ticket offices in London, or worked through agents. For example:

Wm. Cunard, 6 St. Helen's Place, Bishops-gate Street, E.C.

Ismay, Imrie, and Co., agents for the White Star Line, 34, Leadenhall Street, E.C.

Keller, Wallis, and Postlethwaite, agents for the North German Lloyd line, 16 and 17, King William Street, E.C.

This is from 1877. Source: http://www.gjenvick.com/SteamshipArticles/1877-SteamshipLines-TransatlanticPassengerTraffic.html

coloredink April 10 2010, 01:37:37 UTC

!!! THANK YOU THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED

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jayb111 April 10 2010, 10:10:09 UTC

Have you visited the Charles Booth Online Archive? http://booth.lse.ac.uk/

The British Library is making lots of newspapers available online: http://newspapers.bl.uk/blcs/ Some of the content is freely available, or you can buy a daily or weekly subscription at quite a reasonable price.

I don't know where you are, but if you have access to a big city library or university library, you might be able to access The Times digital archive freely ( ... )