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Images of Want
How the Poor Were, and Were Not,
Pictured in America From the
Revolution to the Civil War
Jonathan Prude
Visual materials to accompany the essay
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Figure 1:
Samuel L. Waldo, Old
Pat, The IndependentBeggar(1819).
Boston Atheneum.
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Figure 2: Charles Williams, The Tory Editor and HisApes (1808). Collection of the New-York Historical
Society.
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Figure 3:
Grinder from Cries ofPhiladelphia (1810). The
Historical Society of
Pennsylvania.
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Figure 4: The Five Points in 1859 from Manual of theCorporation of the City of New York for 1860. The Library
Company of Philadelphia.
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Figure 5:
New York Street Figures
from Ballous Pictorial
Drawing-Room
Companion, May 19,
1855. Library Company
of Philadelphia.
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Figure 6: The ironically titled illustration, Mrs. SandySullivans Genteel Lodging House in Baxter Street, accompanied
an investigatory expos into the Five Points appearing in the
New York Illustrated News, Feb. 18, 1860. Collection of the
New-York Historical Society.
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Figure 7: Winslow Homer (who was then supplying imagesfor periodicals) composed this illustration, Thanksgiving Day
1860, The Two GreatClasses of Societyfor Harpers Weekly, Dec.
1, 1860. Courtesy, American Antiquarian Society.
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Figure 9:
Nathaniel Orr createdthis image for Solon
Robinson, HotCorn: Life
Scenes in New York
Illustrated (New York,
1854). Using the format
of a sickbed scene, the
print includes the figure
of a domestic missionary
to the poor and thusextends its pictorial reach
to the supervisory
solicitude applied to the
citys destitute.
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Figure 10:
David Gilmour
Blythe, The News
Boys (1846-1852).Carnegie Museum
of Art, Gift of Haugh
and Keenan
Galleries.
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Figure 11: Edward Williams Clay, The Times (1837). Printand Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
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Figure 12: The Panic in Wall Street, Harpers Weekly(Oct. 10, 1857).
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Figure 13: Run on the Seamans Savings Bank During thePanic, Harpers Weekly(Oct. 10, 1857).
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Figure 14: The Dry-Goods Epidemic, Broadway at ThreeP.M. , Harpers Weekly(Oct. 31, 1857).
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Figure 15:
Harpers Weekly
(Nov. 7, 1857).
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Figure 16:
What a Blessing TheseLarge Skirts Are!,
Harpers Weekly(Dec. 5,
1857).
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Figure 17: The Money Question, Harpers Weekly(Sept.19, 1857).
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Figure 18: Dreadful Effects of the FinancialCrisis,Harpers Weekly(Oct. 24, 1857).
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Figure 20: Lady From Fifth Avenue, Harpers Weekly(Dec. 12, 1857).