Year: 2023

• Artifacts
• Artists

Artifacts of New York City: City Directories [published June 15, 1884]

jpkntz September 26, 2023

      About this time of the year the directories...

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• Religion
• Theater

Christ’s Passion Didn’t Play in New York [published Mar. 3, 1883]

jpkntz September 25, 2023

      For a play that has never yet been...

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• Boxing

Deaf Burke’s Sparring Tour [published Feb. 25, 1883]

jpkntz September 24, 2023

      Sullivan’s sparrin’ expeditions, and Mace and Slade’s exhibitions,...

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• Artists
• Stock Market

Henry Inman Captured Life [published Nov. 26, 1882]

jpkntz September 24, 2023

      Talkin’ the other night about the recent “flurry”...

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• Artifacts
• Circus
• Con Artists
• Music
• Native Americans

1840s New York: Quakers, Millerites, Native Americans [published June 11, 1882]

jpkntz September 23, 2023

      Every now and then there is quite a...

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• Artists
• Clubs
• Writers and Editors

Frank Forester’s Ignoble Duels [published June 4, 1882]

jpkntz September 21, 2023

      There has been a good deal of talk...

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• Music
• Opera
• Stock Market
• Women
• Writers and Editors

Millionaires’ Songbirds…and Marryatt [published Dec. 25, 1881]

jpkntz September 21, 2023

       The recent death of Col. Stebbins, who brought...

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• Criminals
• Deaths
• Murder

The Mind of Edward Ruloff, Polyglot Murderer [published Mar. 29, 1885]

jpkntz September 20, 2023

      Irvin’ recently acted here in New York in...

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• Criminals
• Detectives
• Eccentrics
• Police

The Robbery of Luther C. Bryant [published Apr. 12, 1885]

jpkntz September 18, 2023

      Years ago there used to stand in front...

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• Disasters
• Long Island
• Steamboats

Captain Dustan At the End of His Rope [published Feb. 3, 1884]

jpkntz September 17, 2023

      The loss of the steamer City of Columbus...

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