The Manhattan neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen was truly living up to its name in the summer of 1902. The oppressive heat and ripe stench gripped at Dr. Sara Josephine Baker as she climbed floor after floor of the crowded tenements, knocking on doors in the neighborhood in search of sick babies as part of her job with the New York City Department of Health. Dr. Baker was faced with all measures of...
The people's opinion at the International Convention of Comic Art in 1968 Â In the cover of thousands of comic books, Batman, Superman, and Capitan Marvel, are displayed in courageous brilliance. These comis books were once so cheap that you could pay 10 cents for each, but in 1968 they were selling for approximately 150 dollars each during the International Convention of Comic Art. Phil Seuling,...
Disease epidemics of the mid to late nineteenth century caused an immense amount of fear among everyone and further led to the rivalry and boosterism prevalent between New York City and Chicago during the 1866 cholera epidemic. On August 29, 1866, The Chicago Tribune reported that cholera deaths in New York were at a standstill, and reports extensively from an article from The New York World that “not...
The citizens of Birmingham lived without art. That was until Captain Frank O’Brien, Birmingham, Alabama’s fourteenth mayor, leased the upper floor of a small brick building in the city’s Southside in 1872. It was named Sublett’s Hall in honor of a Confederate Major from Mississippi and was the first theatre in Birmingham. Captain O’Brien is best remembered for his other contribution to the...