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I picked this little article in a newspaper because it reminds me kind of Nan Grant's house. To me, her house seems like a boarding house. She has men that live and eat there and she provides that for them. It's a newspaper advertisment for a home…

In the novel, Shug, Celie, and Squeak move to Tennessee where they start a business tailoring, designing, and sewing clothing. This picture shows a secondhand clothing a pawn shop and a motel in Memphis, which are other jobs related to what Celie did…

This book published in 1885 shows the author's journey and his sight descriptions of a tour around the Mediterranean. The author absolutely marvels at Monte Carlo's sight and setting and so calls his days there as "faultless". He mentions the…

This very short but direct article comes from the New York Observer and Chronicle (which was in print from 1833 – 1912), describing productive improvements and work done over the summer in Long Island, 1905. It focuses solely on work and the…

The Calcutta Review was a bi-annual periodical which began its publishing in the mid-1800’s. Its purpose was to connect the readers to the goings-on and information in and from India. This selection, among many available, expresses excerpts within…

In The Color Purple, Nettie writes to Celie about her brief time spent in Harlem, New York City. She describes the fashion, the people, the churches, and the beautiful city lights and the culture all around her. Compared to the oppressive south,…

This article, published in 1905, discusses the transformation of the Long Island railroad from using steam to being electrically-operated. Trains, during the time period of The House of Mirth, were the largest and fastest transportation systems that…

This article talks about one of the poorest villages in Africa. It explain how missionaries helped bring life back to this village. The Wisconsin delegation covered hundreds of miles of back roads, visiting missions, schools and churches, attending…

The item is a map of “A Capital of Brazil”, published in 1831. Colors indicate parishes: yellow is Candelaria, pink is San José, blue is Sacramento, green is Santa Anna, and peach is Santa Rita. We get a visual on the general layout of Rio and the…

This cartography of the gulf stream created by Benjamin Franklin, who also discovered the usefulness of the gulf stream, shows how the gulf stream that flows alongside the east coast has a rather fast current and was used to travel from places on the…