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This image is a valuable tool in terms of understanding the history of New York City. Taken in 1848, the image highlights a busy New York City. The boat traffic in the river helps to build an understanding of how goods, services and people made it to…

This home is considered to be a “hovel”. It is the home to two African American families in Washington, D.C in 1935. The home is very tiny, especially for two families living it in. There is not much more to the house other than what is seen in…

This image is of the Protestant Orphan School in 1870, an orphanage created by a religious institution. This orphanage is located in Australia but it resembles an orphanage in America during this time. The Protestant Orphan School was originally…

For my research paper I will be focusing on women's clothing in the 1850's and on and how it defined them. Below are two pictures from a book I found in the library by Elisabeth McClellan titled "Historic Dress in America 1800-1870" and it goes into…

This image is from Harper's Weekly on June 11, 1859 and has a particular relationship to Henry James' Washington Square. It is of a women’s rights convention held in New York. In the image, a woman is asserting herself and her independence by…

“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…