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Parental Supervision at the turn of the century
At first look, the first thing that came to my head as I looked at this picture was "Maggie". What this reminded me of Maggie the most was her lonely walks which is speculated to have turned her into the prostitute she became. It also makes me…
"Cures Drunkenness Free" Collier’s Weekly. 23 Dec. 1899.
The item I chose is an advertisement that highlights a remedy used to cure alcoholism. Women are the main audience of the advertisement but are not the intended users of the drug. Instead, it is suggested that women sneak the drug into the drinks and…
Puerto Rico's First American Election
The item I am going to describe is “Puerto Rico’s First American Election”, written by Edwin Emerson, JR. (Emerson, 7). In this section, Puerto Rico hosts its first American Election between the Republicans and the Federals in which thousands of…
Women's Fashion in late 19th Century
For my research paper I will be focusing on women's clothing in the 1850's and on and how it defined them. Below are two pictures from a book I found in the library by Elisabeth McClellan titled "Historic Dress in America 1800-1870" and it goes into…
Spaniards Search Women on American Steamers, 1898
This news illustration by Frederic Remington (artist who became known for his depictions of cowboys and horses in the American West) was published in William Randolph Hearst's newspaper, the New York Journal, in 1898, during the Spanish-American War…
The Vanderbilt Marlborough Union
The Vanderbilt-Marlborough Union, at the very beginning of the magazine starts out almost idealizing this marriage describing it as though it was a perfect extremely extravagant wedding just before breaking from this line of progression to state how…
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This article from Harper' s New Monthly Magazine focuses on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. The article begins by describing the origins of the Museum which began on fifth avenue in 1869. The museum originally opened with nothing but a…
Hood's Sarsaparilla Pills Ad
This item is an advertisement for Hood’s Sarsaparilla pills which treat “all liver ills”, jaundice, sick headache, biliousness, sour stomach, and nausea. In the advertisements a woman, Amanda Paisley, tells in depth, of her grotesque experience with…
A Raid on the Stale-Beer Dives
Jacob Riis reported on his experience of accompanying the police on a raid of a beer dive. He described the filthy dive of beer drinking men and women who scattered as the police entered, only to be captured and arrested. This beer is often…
The Reign of Rum
Jacob Riis discussed the large number of saloons where there were 111 places of worship and 4,065 saloons below Fourteenth Street. Patrons were interracial men and women. Young boys frequented the saloons, picking up beer for their elders even…
An All-Night Two-Cent Restaurant in the Bend
The image depicts a beer dive or also known as a two cent restaurant because a roll and coffee were served for two cents. Men are photographed at tables with some slumped over and sleeping while others appear talking. Their clothing is in…
A Black-and-Tan Dive in Africa
The image is of a beer dive catering to black and white male and female patrons. A black man and white woman are seated in the dive. The woman is staring downward and the man has a dazed look while sitting on a beer keg. Their clothing is dirty…
A Down-Town Morgue
The image is a saloon or beer dive because alcohol bottles are displayed behind the bar. Black and white men patronize the facility. Their clothing is tattered, in disrepair, and dirty. The expressions on the patrons’ faces are serious or staring…
In a Dive
The image depicts a black man and several white women sitting in a beer dive. One woman is slumped, sleeping at a table. The patrons’ clothing is tattered or in disrepair and the room appears plain and unadorned. Maggie’s neighborhood contained…
Rushing the Growler [Beer Can]
The image portrays a young boy carrying his beer can on the way to a saloon or beer dive to retrieve beer for an adult. He is dressed in dirty clothes. The image could have been Maggie’s brother, Jimmie, as he retrieves beer for the elderly…
A Growler Gang in Session [the Montgomery Guards at West 37th Street Dock]
A group of gang members hanging out and drinking beer at the docks is depicted. They are dressed in dirty clothes and a dog is with them. This was typical behavior for a gang in Maggie’s neighborhood.
Chaotic Streets
"Above the muffled roar of conversation, the dismal wailing of babies at night, the thumping of feet in unseen corridors and rooms, mingled with the sound of varied hoarse shoutings in the street and the rattling of wheels over cobbles, they hear the…