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The item chosen to be analyzed was an advertisement from the magazine for “flexibone moulded corsets”. This advertisement features a women wearing a corset, and a sentence that reads “Never lose their shape” when listing information about the corset.…

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:…

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…

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 image is accompanied by an article talks about the technology that the United States had started to implement in their battleships. The article was written by “An Officer In The Service”, but it is clear that the writer has an in depth background…

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…

The article I have chosen describes the difference between New Year’s Day when New York City was first established to New Year’s Day in the 1890’s. The title of the article is The New Year in Old Manhattan. The audience for this article would be…

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 item chosen is an example of sports journalism back in the 1890s, a summary of a college football game played between Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania, where each team is described in great detail about their season and what…

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…

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…

The item I chose is an etching that depicts a scene in which there seems to be a conflict between a man and a woman. The man is pointing a gun at the woman and she can be seen saying “Why Don’t Ye Shoot”. Louis Loeb, a famous American artist, etched…

The item I choose is an advertisement for diet pills for women called “Tibbetts’ Hydroidic Obesity Pills.” There is a picture of a women that says, “as I was” and then a picture of a women saying “as I am.” These two images are trying to show the…

The image shows Jewish immigrants en route to America, probably via Ellis Island as it served as the main hub for the immigration of European Jews during the time. The image not only shows Jewish migrants but how the US would start becoming a melting…

"Eventually they entered into a dark region where, from a careening building, a dozen gruesome doorways gave up loads of babies to the street and the gutter." (6, Crane)

This particular quote is almost an exact description of the image I have…

This image depicts the Silent Protest Parade on July 28th, 1917, which consisted of 8,000 to 10,000 African Americans protesting the lynching of African Americans and black violence. Civil Rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois and the NAACP organized this…

This series of illustrations was created by Charles Dana Gibson and is titled “A New York Day: ‘Night’” (573-577). This was featured in the November monthly issue of Scribner’s Magazine. Charles Dana Gibson was a famous graphic artist who is best…

The illustration here depicts Champ De Mars (Field of Mars) as it will be at its completion. The people of New York were still very interested in progress and foreign accomplishments. New York was growing rapidly at the turn of the century, so…

These articles appeared consecutively in the December 1895 issue of Metropolitan magazine. "The New Woman: What She Is and What She Does," profiles a series of so-called "New Women" who have occupations including that of department-store…

I was drawn to the photos that went along with the article on the US Navy. The image is accompanied by an article talks about the technology that the United States had started to implement in their battleships. The article was written by “An Officer…