Cost of Passage

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Cost of Passage

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Would anyone know what the cost was to travel from Italy to New York back in 1906 - 1915 range.
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here you go Pops interesting reading
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http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/un ... .06.x.html
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I thought this was an interesting question so I went to the link provided by adelfio. For those who don't have time to do the reading..$30 was the average steerage fare to NY (the article also said that by about 1900 the trip took about a week).
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Thank you for your quick answers to my question. I found one article on the net, that put the cost at about $15 in 1920.
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