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A group of gang members hanging out and drinking beer at the docks is depicted. They are dressed in dirty clothes and a dog is with them. This was typical behavior for a gang in Maggie’s neighborhood.

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…

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…

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…

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…

Jacob Riis reported on his experience of accompanying the police on a raid of a beer dive. He described the filthy dive of beer drinking men and women who scattered as the police entered, only to be captured and arrested. This beer is often…

The exact location of this street scene in Harlem is unknown, however, it captures the energy, commerce and fashion in Harlem during the 1920s. As James Weldon Johnson described in The Making of Harlem, Harlem was a "self supporting community".…

This item is a section of some of the small short blurbs featured in the Harper’s New Monthly Magazine “Monthly Record of Current Events”. This stories highlighted in this section is the torrential weather in Belgium, the political on goings in…

This article written by Titus Munson Coan from the February publication of The Galaxy in 1871 is about what was believed to make individuals successful. The article takes a cue from the "theory" of evolution in its explanation of what makes people…

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…

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…

Apparently a photograph from Life Magazine, showing Alberto Giacometti with a number of his sculptures. In form, they distinctly resemble the African art Alain Locke included in his article, "The Art of Our Ancestors," in the issue of Survey Graphic…

The image depicts a beer dive or also known as a two cent restaurant because a roll and coffee were served for two cents. Men are photographed at tables with some slumped over and sleeping while others appear talking. Their clothing is in…

a image of a women holding two infants

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 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…

Below is a image that is titled "Broadway Contrasts. George Beban and Holbrook Blinn." and it features two men back-to-back who were famous actors at the time. The man on the right is Holbrook Blinn who looks more business dressed with a rounded hat…

This poem was written by Charles G. D. Roberts and published in the June 1899 issue of The Atlantic Monthly. The poem is about the Brooklyn Bridge and it shows some of the same themes that we have seen in other works. The author is clearly enthralled…

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…