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New York, October 17, [18]59
People are rather preoccupied with the internal politics of the country. The abortive attempt of [the abolitionist John] Brown and his accomplices, and their execution…
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Salomon de Rothschild
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1859–1861
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George Boehm
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1912
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A sick woman in a squalid rear tenement, so wretched and so pitiful that, in all the years since, I have not seen anything more appealing, determined me, within half an hour, to live on the East…
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Lillian Wald
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1915
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Sheet music for “Die fire korbones” (The Fire's Victims). This song was written in memory of the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City, which broke out on March 25, 1911…
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New York, United States of America
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1911
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Alfred Eisenstaedt
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New York, United States of America
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1945
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Louis Gottschalk
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Philadelphia, British America and the British West Indies
(Philadelphia, United States of America)
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1853
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Len Speier
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1975
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In the 1730s, the German Jewish Franks-Levy family commissioned an artist to create portraits of three generations of the family. These paintings are all attributed to Gerardus Duykinck, a member of a…
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Gerardus Duyckinck I
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New York City, British America and the British West Indies
(New York, United States of America)
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ca. 1735
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Eddie Cantor, Harry Ruby
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1918
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Dear Friend,
You asked me in your last letter to write about America, what kind of country it is and what life is like here. I had to smile as I read your words. [ . . . ]
In order to describe America…
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Shomer (Nokhem Meir Shaykevitch)
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1895–1905