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Letterhead / Manuscript - Banking & Shipping Office, C.B. Richard, Boas & Co, 151 Broadway, New York NY.... 10/30/1858. Emanuel Boas, was a partner in C.B. Richard , Boas & Company, a steamship ticket agency and bank in Hamburg. This was part of the Jewish...Boas Banking/Mercant family in Germany. The document lists shipments made through Adams Express in the month of October 1858. This is their American Office...Boas, Emanuel was in Germany. It is a stand alone document of accounts...not obvious that it was written to anyone. In 1873, at age nineteen, Emil Boas began working for his uncle, Emanuel Boas, who was a partner in C.B. Richard & Boas Company, a steamship ticket agency and bank in Hamburg. After a year in the firm’s Hamburg office, he was transferred to their New York City branch.By the time Boas joined his uncle’s emigrant agency in 1873, the business model of cheaply transporting large numbers of people from Europe to the U.S. by steamship was fully developed. Beginning in the 1820s, packet sailing ships and then steamships sailed on regular schedules and increasingly catered to passengers traveling in both cabins and steerage. These passengers often traveled with both a steamship and a train ticket, usually combined in one fare, and they sailed in increasing comfort, as the American and German governments had outlawed self-provisioning by the mid-1850s. Emil Leopold Boas was the general manager and resident director of the Hamburg-America Steamship Company (Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft or HAPAG) in New York City from 1892 to 1912. Boas joined HAPAG after serving in various capacities in the Hamburg and New York offices of his uncle's steamship ticket agency, C.B. Richard & Boas Co.

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Arc.MS.56, Box 20, Folder 9