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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…

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 image demonstrates a labor strike. The workers are upset with their low wages and poor working conditions. This image was taken during the Great Depression but it is described in the article that minority workers found little difference…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 item is an advertisement for Hood’s Sarsaparilla pills which treat “all liver ills”, jaundice, sick headache, biliousness, sour stomach, and nausea. In the advertisements a woman, Amanda Paisley, tells in depth, of her grotesque experience with…

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…