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Women Gamblers in Wall StreetAccording 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…
White Plains, Greene County, Georgia. The Methodist churchThis 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…
West PointThe article ties in with The Lamplighter because the article expresses how beautiful West Point could truly be. In The Lamplighter the narrator talks…
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…
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…
Trinity Church After the Fire of 1776A 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…
To the Editor of the Christian ObserverThe article is an editorial from a concerned citizen to a Christian magazine with concerns regarding religion in the English Navy. He expresses 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,…
The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources 1745-1799 Volume 12 June 1, 1778-September 30, 1778 [excerpt]
The Wall Street JournalThis 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…