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Women Gamblers in Wall Street
According to the House of Mirth, Lily used the stock market on Wall Street in order to pay for her debts, which generated from playing bridge. In the novel, it turns out that the money that she earned came from Trenor who came up with the idea of her…
White Plains, Greene County, Georgia. The Methodist church
This image gives us an idea of what churches in Georgia were like during the time of The Color Purple. However, the image seems to include a white majority, different from that of The Color Purple
West Point
The article ties in with The Lamplighter because the article expresses how beautiful West Point could truly be. In The Lamplighter the narrator talks about how Gertrude takes in how beautiful the mountains are, and how nice the area is. It was…
WASHINGTON BUILDING, WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON.
This article from Ballou's Pictorial Drawing - Room Companion describes the Washington Building on Washington St, Boston. It describes elements of Washington St such as winding, strangely constructed buildings, and the new Washington Building which…
UNION CLUB HOUSE, NEW YORK CITY.
I chose an article describing a club house in New York City. The way that the house is described makes it seem like a very high class place. I thought this was a place that fit the characters in the book because it doesn't only sound elegant but it…
Trinity Church After the Fire of 1776
A Sketching of the Trinity Church after the fire. In the photograph, you see the church where the front is burnt down and there is rubble from where the church used to stand. There are two men standing in front of the church and the tombstones look…
To the Editor of the Christian Observer
The article is an editorial from a concerned citizen to a Christian magazine with concerns regarding religion in the English Navy. He expresses the lack of bishops overseeing Chaplains on the ships and how when ships are stationed in harbors, the…
Three women and one man hoeing in field.
The image depicts three women tending to the fields, and a lone man . It is counter-intuitive to think that the women would be doing the harder, manual labor, but this was common during this era for African Americans. We saw this frequently during…
The Wall Street Journal
This item is a newspaper front page of The Wall Street Journal, released on Monday, July 8, 1889. The price of this particular newspaper was two cents and the information on the top left of the page gives information about the newspapers publishing…