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The image chosen is titled Yard of tenement, New York, N.Y. between 1900 and 1910, and depicts a view from an apartment building in New York City overlooking other apartment buildings and clothes lines covered with clothing. In the background of the…

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…

The reason "Wistaria is often times used at weddings and as a symbol of marriage is because of the meaning of the word. Like the wistaria clings to buildings, the married couple clings to each other. However, Mrs. Mantsey lost her husband and has no…

Walter’s Park Sanitarium advertisement was a promotion for a health resort in the mountains of Pennsylvania that provided a natural healing solution to illnesses. This ad targeted people living with diseases in the city since it said in bold:…

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…

The "Waldorf Astoria, New York, Roof Garden" photomechanical print illustrates a unique feature of a luxury hotel in Manhattan in the early 1900s. The Waldorf Astoria was one of the first hotels to offer complete electricity, private bathrooms and…

The item I choose to analyze is an article called “Undergraduate Life at Smith College” This article gives a comprehensive description of what life is like for an average student at Smith College. The audience could be many people, but I believe it…

The Porto Rican Campaign is an article about the successes of the military campaign in Puerto Rico. The item I chose is a drawing of a photograph of U.S. troops entering Ponce. The photograph was taken by the author of the article. The article was…

On page three of Colliers Weekly, there is a war dispatch from the correspondent with the British army, Julian Ralph, the story also includes a large illustration. The correspondent tells of a large military city rising up and growing larger every…

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…

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…

This image I have chosen shows boys ages 6-18 traveling on a train with their heads out the window. This train was known as the Orphan Train. In the 1850’s an estimated 30,000 children were homeless or neglected in New York City. The founder,…

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…

The most interesting item in my issue of The Ladies’ World Magazine was definitely the “Out Of Doors”(p.10) section. There are five images on this page, but contrary to most of the other images in the magazine, and all of the images in the Harper’s…

The item I chose to examine for this article was one of the many pieces of equipment used by gold miners during the Klondike Gold Rush that was called a “rocker box.” This item was used for the means of separating “alluvial placer gold” from the…

This picture located in digital collection of the New York Public Library depicts the Brooklyn Bridge on the day of it’s grand opening. The bridge officially opened in May 1883 with an elaborate opening ceremony. The ceremony was completed with a…

After researching more on the topic of mass immigration in America, otherwise known as the "Great Migration," I came across a very unique translation of the United States' Constitution. This translation caught my eye in particular because it was…

The image “The Capture of Vigan” depicts American sailors and soldiers coming ashore in the Phillipines during the conflict there, which lasted from 1899-1902. The caption of the image reads “Jackies from the battleship ‘Oregon’ and the gunboats…

In Chapter 1, Stephen Crane is setting the scene of the Bowery for the novel. He writes, “A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honor of Rum Alley”. The book opens up with this fight in the Bowery making the setting as realistic as…

This article is written by the famous photographer and journalist Jacob Riis who fought to improve the conditions of the slums in New York City. He believes that the slums are not the result of the people who reside in them. The result is of some…