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Forest Hills Cemetery

The article is an opinion piece written to a newspaper by Dr. Putnam. It is his frustrations regarding the burial practice done by Christians in a…

File: Town Plan map of Chichester, Sussex .jpg

The map shows a lot of space in which the novel explains also that there are many open spaces. The map shows many details from the outlines where…

Farm house among trees

This photo of a farmhouse in Georgia depicts an image of what Mr. ___'s house may have looked like in "The Color Purple." African Americans living in…

Executed Design for the House of H. L. Pratt, Esq. , Glen Cove, Long Island, NY

This image is of a plan for a home to be built on Long Island in 1900. What is featured here is an original plan drawn by Brite & Bacon, architect(s)…

Dissertations on Malaria, Contagion, and Cholera

At 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…

DESCRIPTION OF NEW YORK By Noah Webster

This book contains a detailed description of New York City in 1786 by Noah Webster. It includes comprehensive geographical details, with in depth…

CONGRESS HALL, SARATOGA SPRINGS, NEW YORK.

This article is about the Piazza of Congress Hall, it is quite a popular attraction in the summertime, and is usually crowded with visitors The…

CONGESTION OF TRAFFIC AT THE GRAND CENTRAL STATION AND ITS REMEDY.

In this primary source it talks about how in Grand Central Station there is always a plethora of people. “The enormous volume of traffic which it has…

Christian Observer

The excerpt from a magazine describing new members being inducted into the church of many cities. There are two churches that inducted members in…

British empire, routes, currents.

This image shows the routes that the British Empire took across the ocean. In the map there are present routes from America and the West Indies to…