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This is a lithograph of the intersection of Broadway and Ann Street, which is an intersection right before the location of City Hall. I found this fascinating because it was done by a German born immigrant, which helps emphasize how people viewed…

The item chosen is an advertisement from Harpery’s Weekly that presents a new medication called “Brandreth’s Pill”. The advertisement claims that the pill prevents and protects an individual from getting Yellow Fever. It includes the specific…

This graphic is composed of period panoramas from the 1850s to the 1930s that illustrate the vertical growth of buildings on Wall Street. It shows how the buildings on Wall Street from Broadway to Pearl Street have continued to grow taller and taller…

“Husband Hunting” from the Miscellany section of “Harper’s Weekly” is an excerpt from Jane Eyre a novel written by Charlotte Bronte in 1847. This excerpt refutes that women should live their lives for men. The author shows that women should show…

Laurent Deroy's lithograph of a painting by August Köllner depicts the setting of Melville's story "Bartleby the Scrivener," Wall Street c. 1850. Trinity Church, which still stands at the end of Wall Street, is mentioned in the story.

The Item chosen for this section is the front-page illustration titled, Coming Out Of A Fashionable Church. The Audience of this item is presumably New Yorkers who attend church and want to see how their regalia compares to their peers. The audience…

One specific article in this specific issue of Harper’s Monthly is a detailed article about a poet, William Cullen Bryant and his work. William Bryant was a born in a beautiful part of Western MA and often wrote his poetry about the beautiful nature…

The article, “The Red Petticoat and its Pedigree,” is a timeline of sorts for the hoop skirt for women. The article seems to be dedicated to “...Mrs. Selby, the inventor of the hooped petticoat.” who apparently died from a fever caused by an…

The article I chose depicts the “Weekly Market Summery” in New York. It describes the prices of many different types of commodities back in the 1850’s. It provides national and local trends of goods that many people bought each week. The audience of…

One piece of the weekly that stood out to me as I read along, was the ad addressed to the companies and business owners in other words aristocracy. To me it was strange to see space taken up to advertise the weekly’s offerings because in today’s…

The article, “A New York Institution,” reveals a man named Dawson and his unlawful practices, trapping women inside his home for his pleasure while being in a state of great wealth and hedonism. The audience that this article refers to is probably…

In the middle of the Harper’s Weekly issue of August 28th 1858 is an article titled The Telegraph Plateau. This article describes how the depth of the seabed, along the path that the Atlantic telegraph was laid, was measured and how the seabed’s…

The item I chose to be further analyzed in this issue was the illustration provided of “Brooke’s Deep Sea Sounding Instrument,” which was the device used on the cable of the Transatlantic Telegraph Cable in order to trade communication. This was…

This illustration accompanies an article describing St. Valentine’s day. The image is of an upset man, looking as if he has been the victim of a cheap trick. The caption of the image is “The recipient of the comic valentine”. The article describes…

“The Telegraph Plateau” by an unnamed Harper’s Weekly staff member presented a detailed description of the laying of the transatlantic telegraph cable. James, John, Joseph, and Fletcher Harper were apprenticed at an early age to New York printers…

The illustration is a satire of country life from the perspective of a New York City Resident. In the 1850’s, New York City was growing rapidly. Manhattan was becoming more urban in a northward direction. Some chose to move away from the metropolitan…

How the Destruction of Trees Affects the Rain is an article that talks about the long run impacts of the unchecked destruction of trees and forests. The readers of the article could be people who have probably seen the impact of brutality to the…

This "University of the City of New York, Washington Square" water color print illustrates the landscape of Washington Square in 1850. According to websites of New York University and the Washington Square Park Conservancy, the Gothic Revival…

Nathaniel Currier's lithograph titled "The Fire of July 19, 1845 -- The View At Bowling Green" depicts the spread of a massive fire in downtown New York City. The blazing fire, beginning just at dawn on Saturday, July 19, 1845, erupted into a…

Robert Bonner was the publisher of the New York Ledger, a story-paper that published poetry, fiction, and other miscellaneous content for the entire family. This advertisement, which appeared in the more news-oriented Harper's Weekly, uses blocks of…