This article talks about one of the poorest villages in Africa. It explain how missionaries helped bring life back to this village. The Wisconsin delegation covered hundreds of miles of back roads, visiting missions, schools and churches, attending…
The article ties in with The Lamplighter because the article expresses how beautiful West Point could truly be. In The Lamplighter the narrator talks about how Gertrude takes in how beautiful the mountains are, and how nice the area is. It was…
This article from Ballou's Pictorial Drawing - Room Companion describes the Washington Building on Washington St, Boston. It describes elements of Washington St such as winding, strangely constructed buildings, and the new Washington Building which…
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 book is an analytic study of the importance and content of black churches from both urban and rural areas. Mays and Nicholson, both prominent religious figures within the black community, decided to conduct an intensive study of 609 urban…
This cartography of the gulf stream created by Benjamin Franklin, who also discovered the usefulness of the gulf stream, shows how the gulf stream that flows alongside the east coast has a rather fast current and was used to travel from places on the…
This is a report that was issued as an update on the construction of a bridge between New York City (Lilly Bart’s home) and Long Island (a place that she often visited on a pleasurable vacation (like to the Gormers’ elegant country home in Chapter…
This book lists out all the primary schools of the Boston area. The area is broken down into districts in which they then list the schools, number of students, teachers.
The newspaper article provides an interesting insight into the living conditions and perceived morality of the poor. In The Lamplighter, Nan Grant’s house resembles the description of the house and living conditions that exist within this article.…
This directory is significant to the Lamplighter since it is about suburban homes on “Old Colony”, a place in Boston – the setting of this novel. This directory was published in 1889, around 35 years after “The Lamplighter” was published (1854), but…