Harry Hill's Gotham

• Entrepreneurs
• Inventors

Solace Tobacco [published Dec. 11, 1881]

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       John Anderson, the great tobacconist, millionaire and philanthropist,...

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• Fashion
• Scandals

The Red Petticoat Fashion Fad [published April 23, 1882]

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      I heard my women folks the other day...

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• Animals
• Eccentrics
• Organizations

Henry Bergh – Protector of Animals [published Nov. 11, 1883]

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      New York has but few “characters” left in...

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• Civil War
• Newspapers

New York City Reaction to Battle of Bull Run [published Mar. 13, 1881]

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      Last Monday morning I was standin’ near the...

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• England
• Immigrants

English Men and Women in New York City [published Nov. 26, 1882]

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      There is a good deal of London to...

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• Brooklyn
• Taverns

Brooklyn’s Abbey Chop-House [published Apr. 12, 1885]

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      Twenty years ago there was no more popular...

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• Con Artists
• Criminals
• Detectives
• Forgery
• Impostors

The Amateur Detective [published Oct. 1, 1882]

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      Philip Brown, an old New Yorker, who recently...

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• Actors
• Bronx
• Neighborhoods
• Theater

Actorsville [published Jan. 25, 1885]

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      About twenty years ago a hotel was erected,...

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