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Dissertations on Malaria, Contagion, and CholeraAt the time in which Gerty and her mother are separated from Mr. Phillips by the malaria epidemic, the rampant disease was thought to be spread by…
Steamboat and Railroad.This article ties to the reading in The Lamplighter because the article talks about how much safer the steamboats were rather than the railroads. In…
Panorama of CalcuttaThese six sectional images are lithograph prints that comprise one drawing by Frederick Fiebig entitled Panorama of Calcutta. Together the images…
Telegraph Around the GlobeThis is a newspaper excerpt from 1850 discussing a successful telegraph between Dover and Calais, and expressing the hopeful possibilities of…
Annals and Occurrence of New York city and state, in the Olden TimeThis primary source shows how Charlotte Temple is displayed as a legend and how she is being considered as an actual person in real life. This primary…
“Selections from the Calcutta Review, Volume VI”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…
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,…
The London Directory or a New & Improved Plan of London, Westminster & Southwark; with the adjacent Country, the New Buildings, the New Roads and the late alterations by Opening of New Streets, & Widening of others 1790.It is a map of London from 1790 by Robert Sayer showing buildings, roads, rebuilt areas, etc. from the Great Fire in 1666 up till 1790. It does show…
The particulars of sundry valuable, Improvable, and very desirable, Freehold and Copyhold Estates, containing nearly Fifteen Hundred Acres of ...This appears to be some sort of advertisement of estates for sale during the time of Charlotte Temple. Although the Temple’s didn’t live in an estate…
A Chart of the Gulf StreamThis cartography of the gulf stream created by Benjamin Franklin, who also discovered the usefulness of the gulf stream, shows how the gulf stream…