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LETTER FROM ENGLAND1834-10-11
This article is about someone’s experiences with weather….. They felt like the weather was not extremely cold or severely hot…
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…
Monte Carlo Casino, Monaco (Riviera)Selden and Carry start out in Monte Carlo in the beginning of Book 2. This image shows Monte Carlo and the casino in Monte Carlo. Here is where all of…
“The Long Island Railroad Electrified”This article, published in 1905, discusses the transformation of the Long Island railroad from using steam to being electrically-operated. Trains,…
The favorites of flora; or, a chaplet for the brow of meritThis excerpt of The Favorites of Flora shows a woman losing her house and her possessions. The reader does not have a sense of the young lady’s…
Bowen’s Picture of Boston, or the Citizen’s and Stranger’s Guide.The author’s, Abel Bowen, main purpose for publishing this particular work was so that he could provide a field guide to the citizen of Boston and to…
Monaco and Monte CarloThis item is a book about the past and the present (with respect to the published year of this book, 1912) of Monaco and Monte Carlo – from the same…
History of Trinity Church and its grave yard...This primal book proves that there in fact is a grave for Charlotte Temple. "Crossing the path, and near to Broadway, is a large brown tomb-stone,…
Christian ObserverThe excerpt from a magazine describing new members being inducted into the church of many cities. There are two churches that inducted members in…
This article is about a little boy who was killed in the hovel that he lived in with his family. However after he was killed, he could see the light…