Passage Tickets & Contracts - 1880s

All Passage Contracts & Tickets For the 1880s Available at the GG Archives. These unique contracts represent primary source documents of the voyage of many immigrants. Our collection includes a variety of types and classes and provides an invaluable account of the cost of passage.

A Memorandum of a Draft like the one shown below from 1880 was used as a receipt - often for funds sent to immigrants still in the Old Country waiting to come to America.

PARTIES DESIRING to send for their friends from the OLD COUNTRY, can obtain Ticket, etc. by the WHITE STAR LINE on application at the Company's Offices, or any of the Company's Agents throughout the United States and Canada.

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1880-05-29 Memorandum of Draft (Prepaid) - Queenstown (Cobh) to New York

Date of Purchase / Voyage: 29 May 1880
Steamship Line: White Star Line
Steamship: SS Britannic
Route: Queenstown (Cobh) to New York
Ticket Type: Memorandum of Draft (Prepaid)
Voyage Class: Steerage
Name on Contract: Mrs. Frank (Ellen) McGuire
Etnicity of Passenger(s): Irish
Contract Terms: Limited
Cost of Ticket: £3-0-0 / £305.30 in 2021 GBP

Agent's Record for a Prepaid passage on a White Star Line Steamship for passage from Cardiff, Whales, UK to Scranton PA via Steerage class in 1880.

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1880-05-29 Agent's Record (Prepaid) - Cardiff, Whales, UK to Scranton PA

Date of Purchase / Voyage: 29 May 1880
Steamship Line: White Star Line
Steamship: SS Germanic
Route: Cardiff, Whales, UK to Scranton PA
Ticket Type: Agent's Record (Prepaid)
Voyage Class: Steerage
Name on Contract: John Price
Etnicity of Passenger(s): British
Contract Terms: Unknown
Cost of Ticket: $32.00 / $836.00 in 2021 USD

Superb example of a passenger contract for a Swedish emigrant, traveling from Gothenburg to Boston via Hull and Liverpool on a Cunard steamship in Steerage class.

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1880-06-04 Passage Contract - Gothenburg to Boston

Date of Purchase / Voyage: 4 June 1880
Steamship Line: Cunard Line
Steamship: Unknown
Route: Gothenburg to Boston
Ticket Type: Passage Contract
Voyage Class: Steerage
Name on Contract: Luders Engström
Etnicity of Passenger(s): Swedish
Contract Terms: Limited Translation from Swedish
Cost of Ticket: $ 30.00 / $783.00 in 2020 USD

Steamship Ticket Contract for the passage of Bealle Nutchen & party, as one in steerage of one of the Steamers of the North German Lloyd from Bremen to New York.

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1883-02-17 Prepaid Certificate - Bremen to New York