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"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…

On the cover of this issue of The Jewish Immigrant is depicting Lady Liberty standing in front of the Gates to the United States. She is wearing a cap that has the word “America” written on it in Yiddish. This picture is representative of the mass…

"The open mouth of a saloon called seductively to passengers to enter and annihilate sorrow or create rage" (Crane, 39).

This photo almost directly correlates with this image because it shows how the poor of the 1890s were controlled by saloons…

Martin Dressler was an ambitious young man but was he too ambitious. Was Martin Dressler a good businessman or was his head in the clouds.
One of largest and most prominent hotels in NYC during the gilded age was the Waldorf-Astoria.

This hotel…

I found this article while I was looking for sources for my Collections Project and I thought it provided the perfected summary of how women's roles changed in society based on their realization of how their health was being compromised. This…

Photograph of George Boldt, New York hotelier, likely the model for Stephen Millhauser's character Martin Dressler.

Edith Wharton at The Mount, her Lenox, MA estate. 1905.