Emil Leopold Boas

Boas, Emil Leopold, Portrait from Prominent and Progressive Americans, 1904

Emil Leopold Boas, Portrait from Prominent and Progressive Americans, 190. From: Prominent and Progressive Americans. An Encyclopedia of Contemporaneous Biography,…

German Emigrants Embark on a Hamburg Steamship Bound for New York, 1874

By the time Emil Boas joined his uncle’s emigrant agency in 1873, the business model of cheaply transporting large numbers…

New York and Brooklyn: with Jersey City and Hoboken Water Front, ca. 1877

The southern tip of Manhattan occupies the center of this print by Currier & Ives. Manhattan is separated from Brooklyn…

Landing Place for the Hamburg-American Line in Hoboken, NJ, 1899

This illustration features a view (looking east) of the Hamburg-American terminal and piers on the Hudson River in Hoboken, New…

Boas, Emil portrait, 1904

This portrait, painted at the height of Boas’s career, shows the forty-nine-year-old shipping manager at his desk in his office.

Hamburg-American Line Piers in Hoboken, NJ, ca. 1905

For many of HAPAG’s steamship passengers, New York City was just a stop along the way to their final destination.…

The <em>Deutschland</em>, an Ocean Liner of the Hamburg-American Line, ca. 1905

Deutschland, an Ocean Liner of the Hamburg-American Line, ca. 1905

This photograph shows the Deutschland, a Hamburg-American ocean liner, at the company’s Hoboken piers. After Crown Prince Heinrich of Prussia,…

The <em>Imperator</em>, an Ocean Liner of the Hamburg-American Line, 1913

Imperator, an Ocean Liner of the Hamburg-American Line, 1913

This photograph shows the Imperator, a Hamburg-American ocean liner that landed in New York City on June 19, 1913.

Bonniecrest, the Boas Family’s Summer Home in Greenwich, CT, n.d.

In 1903, Emil and Harriet Boas purchased twenty-two acres of land in Greenwich, Connecticut, a wealthy New York City suburb.…

Bonniecrest, from “Greenwich Beautiful,” 1913

Bonniecrest, the Boas family’s summer home in Greenwich, Connecticut, was built in 1904. After Emil Boas’s death in 1912, Harriet…