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

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

This is the cover to an experimental musical that Zora Neale Hurston wrote in 1925, early in her career. It was interesting to see another play written to by Hurston. Unlike Hurston's play in Fire!!, this musical takes place in New York City. To see…

The illustration depicts the many African Americans that were fleeing the south for better opportunity in the North. In the painting you see 3 major cities: New York, Chicago, and St. Louis. These as well as cities like Detroit and LA experience a…

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…

Depicted here is a picture of Zora Neale Hurston in her hometown of Eatonville, Florida. Many of her short stories and novels were said to be based off of Eatonville. Eatonville is a majority African American community, supplying Hurston a plethora…

Published in Harper's Weekly in 1865, this image depicts the laziness of the New York Health Department. There were many diseases prevalent in New York at the time devastating immigrants and native New Yorker's alike. As you can see, there were Irish…

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 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…

This is a short sample of Zora Neale Hurston's analysis and research on African American, language and culture. Much of the analysis that she made was based off of her research on African American folklore and travelling the south. In the this…

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…

"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…

In this song book by Solomon Smulewitz, Long Live the Land of the Free, was a song to represent the loyalty of which Jewish immigrants had towards the United States. This song was popular for recent arriving Jewish immigrants in the United States…

Towards the end of the 1890s, building techniques were evolving which finally allowed for skyscrapers to form throughout the New York City skyline. One of the first was the Flatiron Building which when built was the tallest building at 22 stories.…

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…

This article by Thomas Martin from the February 1894 publication of The Century focuses on Nikola Tesla. Tesla is often overshadowed by Thomas Edison for their respective works on electricity. However, Edison essentially cheated Tesla out of credit…

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…

Harlem Renaissance what was painted by a man named Aaron Douglas. The name of the piece was created for the book The New Negro by Alain Locke. The art work is meant to depict different parts of Afro-American history. You see on the left people…