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Scientific American had a strong of articles that focused on life in Long Island. Because it was an up and coming area for many people, it was seen as an interest if people, either rich and able to afford a vacation home in one of the luxury…

This is a detailed drawing of a British Naval ship of war common in the year of 1728. Ships like this were likely to have been used in fighting the Napoleonic Wars, the French Revolutionary War, and the American War of Independence. The typical naval…

This article is significant to The Lamplighter because they were both written around the same time. The article discusses Washington Street in Boston, which is where certain parts in the book take place. The article also describes how there was an…

The document I chose is an advertisement for a boarding house, which is where working people went to eat and live in the 18th century, They usually didn't have families and were of young ages. Nan Grant's home was kind of the same thing, she fed and…

This still image provides an example of what Pa’s house might have looked like during the time period The Color Purple takes place. During this time in Georgia, African Americans lived in small houses in close proximity to each other. We can gather…

"The Gryces were from Albany, and but lately introduced to the metropolis, where the mother and son had come, after old Jefferson Gryce's death, to take possession of his house in Madison Avenue—an appalling house, all brown stone without and black…

The primary source describes in detail the layout of a fleet prison in London. The layout, prices the prisoners have to pay, and the descriptions of the setting in general explain the horrible conditions the prisoners lived in and explain the misery…

This 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 source shows that it has found her believed farmhouse that she had stayed in during the time she…

This document is significant for The House of Mirth Because it shows a depiction of what a typical floor plan looks like during the time that the book takes place, which is the late 1800s. A typical apartment during that time would cost about $30 to…

This source talks about the different medical occupations at the time, the qualifications that you had to have, and what you went through when you finally got into that profession. This document states that to be an Apothecary Doctor you had to have…