jonathan prude, images of want

8/9/2019 Jonathan Prude, Images of Want

1/21

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


2/21

Figure 1:

Samuel L. Waldo, Old

Pat, The IndependentBeggar(1819).

Boston Atheneum.


3/21

Figure 2: Charles Williams, The Tory Editor and HisApes (1808). Collection of the New-York Historical

Society.


4/21

Figure 3:

Grinder from Cries ofPhiladelphia (1810). The

Historical Society of

Pennsylvania.


5/21

Figure 4: The Five Points in 1859 from Manual of theCorporation of the City of New York for 1860. The Library

Company of Philadelphia.


6/21

Figure 5:

New York Street Figures

from Ballous Pictorial

Drawing-Room

Companion, May 19,

1855. Library Company

of Philadelphia.


7/21

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.


8/21

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.


9/21


10/21

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.


11/21

Figure 10:

David Gilmour

Blythe, The News

Boys (1846-1852).Carnegie Museum

of Art, Gift of Haugh

and Keenan

Galleries.


12/21

Figure 11: Edward Williams Clay, The Times (1837). Printand Photographs Division, Library of Congress.


13/21

Figure 12: The Panic in Wall Street, Harpers Weekly(Oct. 10, 1857).


14/21

Figure 13: Run on the Seamans Savings Bank During thePanic, Harpers Weekly(Oct. 10, 1857).


15/21

Figure 14: The Dry-Goods Epidemic, Broadway at ThreeP.M. , Harpers Weekly(Oct. 31, 1857).


16/21

Figure 15:

Harpers Weekly

(Nov. 7, 1857).


17/21

Figure 16:

What a Blessing TheseLarge Skirts Are!,

Harpers Weekly(Dec. 5,

1857).


18/21

Figure 17: The Money Question, Harpers Weekly(Sept.19, 1857).


19/21

Figure 18: Dreadful Effects of the FinancialCrisis,Harpers Weekly(Oct. 24, 1857).


20/21


21/21

Figure 20: Lady From Fifth Avenue, Harpers Weekly(Dec. 12, 1857).

jonathan prude, images of want

Documents