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This source by George Iles from the March issue of The Century, George looks at the large gifts of the philanthropists and other business men of the time. The article opens by acknowledging that massive fortunes have been amassed by American…

The map specifically shows the areas of Manhattan during the 1870-1879 that had the most houses of prostitution. It is interesting that during this time there were such detailed records of blocks in where the most prostitutes were. This map was found…

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…

This image was really interesting to me in the way it portrays robber baron’s compared to their workers. The Gilded age was a time of extreme division in wealth and poverty. Workers were very unhappy about wages and conditions. In this image you 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…

"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…

An advertisement, in The American Missionary, for Scientific American. "The whole presented in popular language, free from technical terms, and illustrated with engravings, and so arranged as to interest and inform all classes of readers, old and…

This image shows people ice skating on the lake in Central Park around 1890. The image is in black and white and shows the Dakota, a famous luxury apartment building in New York City, in the background, surrounded by a wintery landscape. Central Park…

It shows a Jazz player at the center of a very chaotic and apocalyptic setting. The reason it caught my eye is because it shows what is a seemly positive and powerful image in the middle of a dark place which can be correlated to its influence from…

The image I selected is of two apartment buildings right next to each other. The windows in this apartment building are tall and skinny, which does not let in a lot of light already and even more so since the window faces a wall. In Bartleby the…

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…

This primary source is from Asher and Adams Atlas set and gives an overview of four of the newest and most luxurious hotels in New York City in 1875 and demonstrates how progression of the period was clearly represented in hotels. For example, the…

The Gilded Age, and the years leading up to it, introduced a new kind of wealth, one that was controlled by a select elite. These "Captains of Industry" were coined as Robber Barons by their critics and consisted of JP Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, Andrew…

On September 1, 1858, the Staten Island Quarantine Hospital was swarmed by a group of people who set fire to the hospital facilities. The goal of the fires was to remove the hospital and keep the sick immigrants from entering the country. Many of the…

During the 1890s, New York City residents were rapidly spreading their way north on the island. As immigrants were coming in, the original inhabitants of the city started to move up the island. Through the use of technology though, residents were…

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…

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 illustration was dated August 18, 1858 from New York. The image depicts a large crowd gathered around the City Hall and watching firefighters put out a fire that has already semi-destroyed the building. The audience for this specific item is…

The illustration of the burning of New York’s City Hall was featured on the cover of the Harper’s Weekly Magazine published on August 28, 1858. The fire took place on the night of Tuesday, August 17, 1858 and lasted until three, the morning of the…