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Five Points
The very letters of the two words seem, as they are written, to redden with the blood-stains of unavenged crime. There is Murder in every syllable, and Want, Misery and Pestilence take startling form and crowd upon the imagination as the pen traces the words." So wrote a reporter about Five Points, the most infamous neighborhood in nineteenth-century America, the place where "slumming" was invented. All but forgotten today, Five Points was once renowned the world over. Its handful of streets in lower Manhattan featured America's most wretched poverty, shared by Irish, Jewish, German, Italian, Chinese, and African Americans. It was the scene of more riots, scams, saloons, brothels, and drunke...
The Five
Miscast in the media for nearly 130 years, the victims of Jack the Ripper finally get their full stories told in this eye-opening and chilling reminder that life for middle-class women in Victorian London could be full of social pitfalls and peril.
Year Book
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Index to Marriages in the (Baltimore) Sun, 1851-1860
The marriages in this volume are arranged alphabetically by grooms' names. There also is an index of brides and others mentioned in the marriage notices. About 15,000 marriages are recorded, and with the others mentioned, about 35,000 persons are cited in the text.
New World Immigrants
A consolidation of the many articles regarding ship passenger lists previously published.
Proceedings
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