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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…

The Chichester guide

This book goes through the entire history of Chichester. From the ancient civilizations to the 1800s, this bok reveals all the history of buildings…

The life and adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish man; Taken from his own mouth in his passage to England from off Cape Horn in America, in the ship Hector. By a Passenger in the ship. Embellished with cuts.

The narration tells a personal account of ship life on a transatlantic voyage from Cape Horn in America to England in the late 1700’s, early 1800’s.…

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 HOUSING CONDITIONS IN BOSTON.1: POPULATION AND NUMBER OF DWELLING-HOUSES WITH PER CENT OF ANNUAL INCREASE.; Middle Class Homes of Boston

This article offers insight into the living conditions of middle class people living in Boston. The article gives a diagram of what a typical middle…

New York, New York. Street scene in Harlem

This is a photograph of a street scene in Harlem, New York in June of 1943. It is part of The Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information…

In Georgia/O’Neill Latham

The illustration by O’Neill is of an African American family living in Georgia. Some are trying and some are trying not to, watch Caucasian men…

The A B C of Wall Street

“The A B C of Wall Street” is a book written by S. A. Nelson to describe many different aspects of Wall Street and the stock market at the time of…

Albany and Rensselaer, N.Y., Directory

"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…

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…