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The Orphan Trains
This image I have chosen shows boys ages 6-18 traveling on a train with their heads out the window. This train was known as the Orphan Train. In the 1850’s an estimated 30,000 children were homeless or neglected in New York City. The founder,…
Fifth Avenue in the 1890's
This picture shows the prominent and distinguishable mansions that covered 5th Avenue in the 1890’s. This photo specifically shows the glorious Vanderbilt mansions on Fifth Avenue. These mansions are symbols of prosperity as they are enormous and…
The Bowery
In Chapter 1, Stephen Crane is setting the scene of the Bowery for the novel. He writes, “A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honor of Rum Alley”. The book opens up with this fight in the Bowery making the setting as realistic as…
Our Lady of the Roses In NYC
Mary, mother of Jesus, is often seen with the image of roses. In NYC history, she is often pictured with roses and she is known as Our Lady of the Roses. She is often associated with the rosary which comes latin "Garland of Roses". Mary is also often…
Federal Jewish Art Project
This was an image created by a Federally funded project to teach the Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe to speak English. This wave of Jewish Immigration took place from the 1880s to the 1920s. Many of the immigrants did not speak English, instead…
Immigrants at Ellis Island in 1908
This image of men, women, and children at Ellis Island in 1908 portrays the first-hand experience of newly arriving immigrants. Their clothing appears to be clean, in good condition, average, and not fancy. It seems the clothing is…
"The Klondike Gold Fields" Collier's Weekly, December 1899
“The Klondike Gold Fields” by Tappan Adney presented information about gold exploration in the Yukon region of northwestern Canada near Alaska which appealed to national and international audiences. Adney was a renowned author and illustrator of…
Troops Entering Ponce
The Porto Rican Campaign is an article about the successes of the military campaign in Puerto Rico. The item I chose is a drawing of a photograph of U.S. troops entering Ponce. The photograph was taken by the author of the article. The article was…
Hood's Sarsaparilla Pills Ad
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…
The War in South Africa
On page three of Colliers Weekly, there is a war dispatch from the correspondent with the British army, Julian Ralph, the story also includes a large illustration. The correspondent tells of a large military city rising up and growing larger every…
"Cures Drunkenness Free" Collier’s Weekly. 23 Dec. 1899.
The item I chose is an advertisement that highlights a remedy used to cure alcoholism. Women are the main audience of the advertisement but are not the intended users of the drug. Instead, it is suggested that women sneak the drug into the drinks and…
"Give the Man a Chance," The Ladies' World, 1900.
This article, from the Household Topics section of the May 1900 issue of The Ladies' World, argues that the man of the household should contribute to making the house a happy home, as opposed to only expecting the wife to put on a happy face at all…
Flexibone Moulded Corsets
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
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:…
Puerto Rico's First American Election
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 Ladies' World Magazine, July 1900
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…
A Hundred Years of the American 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 In The Service”, but it is clear that the writer has an in depth background…
The Capture of Vigan
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…
A New Year in Old Manhattan
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…