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The fire spread quickly to the wooden buildings nearby, all of which were dry as the result of a long

During that time, the fire burned approximately eight city blocks and destroyed about two hundred buildings

in the densely populated area in the vicinity of Fulton and Nassau Streets ("The Doings of a Night,"

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Then New York will be more populous than London or Paris, and, it is to be hoped, as great a city as

cities.

This phrase signifies the "upper ten thousand," or upper classes of major American cities and is usually

According to the 1849 "Bulletin of the American Art Union," "The American Art Union . . . was incorporated

1852 ("The American Art Union," The New York Times , June 12, 1852).

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on July 4, 1842 and was the first large-scale water distribution system to supply water to New York City

Reservoir was demolished in 1899 and replaced by the New York Public Library in 1911 (William Hayes, City

cities and is usually ascribed to author and critic Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867).; According

According to the 1849 "Bulletin of the American Art Union," "The American Art Union . . . was incorporated

1852 ("The American Art Union," The New York Times, June 12, 1852).

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of his luck, and has doubtless astonished hundreds of fellow lawyers, around Nassau street, and the City

Deer Park, (we Americans seem to christen new localities according to contraries, like the way dreams

For there were also, in those days, perpetual quarrels and lawsuits between the people there, and the

An expert adept in city crime, however, would easily show it a clean pair of heels.

Shell heaps; kitchen middens of early Native American settlements.

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See Isaac Backus, Church History of New England from 1620–1804 (Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication

"; Shell heaps; kitchen middens of early Native American settlements.; Our transcription is based on

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SOME POETICAL COMPARISONS BETWEEN COUNTRY AND CITY.—THE OLD COUPLE ON SHELTER ISLAND.

Yet were we a coarse and unhewn structure of humanity without them.

I noticed large numbers of cows in the neighboring fields: were they hers?

Yes, they produced well; the apples were sold.

Divers fatting hogs, in the pens; they also were designed for market.

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green and plentiful; and the best patches of Indian corn and garden vegetables I saw last autumn, were

For a discussion of American involvement in the opium trade, see Thomas N.

performances circa 1840–1860, see William A.

Moreover, were there not the freshest and finest fish to be bought within stone-throw?

Truly those were wonderful hours!

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Hector St John de Crevecoeur (1735–1813) claimed, in Letters from an American Farmer, that Nantucket

For a discussion of American involvement in the opium trade, see Thomas N.

For a discussion on the American reception of Le Dieu et la Bayadere and other European ballet/pantomime

performances circa 1840–1860, see William A.

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They were close upon the Sound, and had an unusually bare and dismal and lonesome appearance.

There were hundreds of graves, all of generations long before our own; but from some reason or other,

Several of the tomb-stones were large flat ones, even with the ground, and quite covered with moss and

Some were crumbled away, some just poked out a few inches of their tops, above the surface.

It contains the graves of many of the "oldest inhabitants," some of whom were buried as early as 1620

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The theatrical burlesques were usually humorous parodies of classical literary works, often in musical

well-known comedian and burlesque actor (Robert Clyde Allen, Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American

Sheridan.; Whitman alludes to the California Gold Rush of 1849, where the discovery of gold in the American

initiated a mass migration to California, which had been recently acquired from Mexico in the Mexican-American

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Nobody knows, I think, what really good fish are, as you get them from your city markets.

It hath the same relation to the city served fish as the pure breath of some whole-toothed country girl

Sybaris, a city-state founded in 720 BCE in what is now southern Italy.

By 1860, there were three hotels on the island, and in 1870 the construction of Government Harbor, on

I suspect those two Tribunes were completely got by rote.

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.; Sybaris, a city-state founded in 720 BCE in what is now southern Italy.

By 1860, there were three hotels on the island, and in 1870 the construction of Government Harbor, on

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He has seen New York grow up, as it were; at any rate he has seen the growth of what we possess in the

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Weekly Messenger in 1843 (Mabbott, "Walt Whitman Edits the Sunday Times July, 1842–June, 1843," American

Other pieces by Whitman that were published in the paper include the article "A Visit to Greenwood Cemetery

The Weekly Tribune enjoyed widespread distribution, with a circulation of 200,000 in 1860.

The Politics of Art Criticism in New York City's Penny Press [New York: Fordham University Press, 2020

Gentleman's Magazine (Frank Luther Mott, "The Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine," in A History of American

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Atlantic Avenue Tunnel, opened in December 1844 and was the first railway tunnel dug underneath a city

and potatoes—apple orchards with yellow fruit—farms and farm-yards, and farm operations, and cattle—were

An immense city was sure to be that same Hicksville: now its sovereign sway enfolds a large unoccupied

The historians were hazy on the dates.

thousands upon thousands of human beings, all lying unproductive, within thirty miles of New York city

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Atlantic Avenue Tunnel, opened in December 1844 and was the first railway tunnel dug underneath a city

of Jamaica, Long Island (Francis Hodge, "Yankee in England: James Henry Hackett and the Debut of American

The historians were hazy on the dates.

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the reader is probably aware what a wild and wide stretch of desert they are; but ten years ago they were

he suddenly came at right angles upon some tracks made in a loamy spot, and saw at once that they were

other house within five miles—and that there was only one bed in the cottage, the occupants whereof were

excellent sleep, and was disturbed by no dreams, is as true as that it would be well for many of our city

His perplexities were cut short by the loud clear voice of the young man outside: "Suke! Suke!

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We suggest an inquiry that way to some antiquarian, and solemnly believe that if he were to burrow out

surmounting this was a cupola, over 125 feet from the street, from which one of the best views of the city

Ah, these city clerks are a peculiar race; on all occasions, you can tell them with as much certainty

To the left of the Heights, the open mouth of Fulton street, the great entrance to the city—up whose

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surmounting this was a cupola, over 125 feet from the street, from which one of the best views of the city

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Many were spent in travel—some in the pursuit of power and wealth—which pursuit was successful.

the patter of horses' hoofs sounded rapidly on the road—but the beatings of the traveller's heart were

—He came in the day, when crowds were in the rooms—though all to him was a vacant blank—all but the corpse

—And at last he came in the silence of the midnight before the burial, when the tired watchers were asleep

—He bent down his ear to the cold blue lips and listened—but the cold blue lips were hushed for ever.

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from it, the revealed system of medicine, the Puranas, or sacred histories, and the code of Menu, were

—"A number of glosses or comments on Menu were composed by the Munis, or old philosophers, whose treatises

We seem to be dabbling in the very elements of our present conventional and actual life; as if it were

where how to eat and to drink and to sleep, and maintain life with adequate dignity and sincerity, were

In another era the "lily-of-the valley, cowslip, dandelion," were to work their way down into the plain

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Newman's, but they have either not had any copy in Russia binding, or were averse to giving me one.

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These bits were written for the Brooklyn Newspapers, Times, Eagle Star etc— Alfred F Goldsmith—June 17

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These bits were written for the Brooklyn Newspapers, Times, Eagle Star etc— Alfred F Goldsmith—June 17