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"Above the muffled roar of conversation, the dismal wailing of babies at night, the thumping of feet in unseen corridors and rooms, mingled with the sound of varied hoarse shoutings in the street and the rattling of wheels over cobbles, they hear the…

This a photo of Charlotte Mason Osgood, the patron of African American Arts during the Harlem Renaissance. Ms.Osgood supported many famous Harlem Renaissance writers and artists like Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. Langston Hughes mentions…

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…

The picture shows a integrated night club during a time where this was very unpopular to do. It was mentioned in the poem "Little Cinderella" which is what drew my interest to it. You can see that it is a very lively place where both Black and White…

In 1836, three Quakers, Anna and Hanna Shotwell and Mary Murray, founded the Colored Orphan Asylum to provide assistance to homeless black children in New York City. This was the first establishment made for homeless black children in America. It was…

The item from The Ladies’ World titled “The Perfect Poise” is an advertisement about a corset from the brand Ferris Waist. The Ferris Waist corset enables a woman to ride either her bicycle, horse, or play a sport with “easy grace” because every…

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 article from C. D. Shanley published in The Atlantic Monthly recounts the details of Coney Island in 1878. The article refers to Coney Island as being one of the "least aristocratic features of the great suburb (Long Island)." At this time there…

This article in the Scientific American periodical written in 1897 gives a lot of details about the architectural layout of the Waldorf and also explains what George Boldt, the manager of the Waldorf Astoria, was envisioning while building it. He…

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 photo featured here is the orchestra that played at the infamous Cotton Club in Harlem. As Langston Hughes mentioned in his reflective piece about Harlem Renaissance, the Cotton Club was a club exclusively for white patrons in the middle of…

Louis Armstrong was an important figure in the development of jazz music. He influenced the jazz we know today as a pivotal trumpeter, singer and song writer. He was one of the first popular African-American entertainers. Starting with his trumpet…

This advertisement caught my attention with it’s claim. The title “Easily Earned” refers to the sofa that would be given to anyone who could sell 52 boxes of toilet soaps. The ad also talks about a catalog that could be sent as well. This ad seems…

Edith Wharton at The Mount, her Lenox, MA estate. 1905.

I came across an interesting document as began to look more into known Jewish people who immigrated to America. This document in particular happened to belong to none other than Albert Einstein, the founder of the general theory of relativity and…

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…

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…

On the day of the grand opening of the Brooklyn Bridge, The Daily Graphic released this edition of the magazine. In the picture, the bridge rises high into the sky. It is so large that the city behind it looks flat. On the bridge stand two women, who…

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.…

Photograph of George Boldt, New York hotelier, likely the model for Stephen Millhauser's character Martin Dressler.