Images from Joanne Reitano’s lecture, “Is New York America? The Symbolism of Gilded Age Gotham,” Illustrating the Gilded Age: Political Cartoons and the Press in American Politics and Culture, 1877-1901, Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, Fremont, Ohio, May 23/June 6, 2008.

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1. Welcome to the Land of Freedom," Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, July 2, 1887
2. Thomas Nast, 1889. [could not locate]
3. Saul Steinberg, 1975
4. Saul Steinberg, 1989 [could not locate]
5. Thomas Nast, “The Street,” Harper’s Weekly, January 19, 1878
6. “The panic—Scenes in Wall Street, Wednesday morning, May 14,” Harper's Weekly, May 24, 1884
7. “Setting Out to Battle the Trusts,” 1904 [could not locate]
8. “The Spider of Wall Street,” 1932 [could not locate]
9. Flatiron Building, NYC, 1902
10. Vanderbilt mansion, Fifth Avenue, 1885 [could not locate]
11. Thomas Nast, 1881 [could not locate]
12. Jacob Riis, airshaft [could not locate]
13. Brooklyn Bridge, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, May 26, 1883 [could not locate]
14. John Marin, “Brooklyn Bridge,” drypoint etching, 1913
15. “The Grand Opening March over the Brooklyn Bridge,” Puck [could not locate]
16. Frontispiece, Helen C. Campbell, Thomas W. Knox, and Thomas Byrnes,
Darkness and Daylight: Lights and Shadows of New York Life (Hartford, 1899) [could not locate]
17. “In the City Where Nobody Cares,” sheet music cover, 1910
18. “I'm a Little Bit Afraid of You, Broadway,” sheet music cover, 1913
19. Eugene Fitsch, “The Great White Way II,” c. 1927 [could not locate]
20. “The riots in New York--The mob lynching a Negro in Clarkson Street,” Illustrated London News, August 8, 1863
21. Clothing Workers Strike, c. 1900
22. Mulberry Street, c. 1900
23. Chinatown [could not locate]
24. Jacob Riis, “A courtyard on Baxter Street, with wash hanging from lines,” c. 1890
25. Jacob Riis, Family making artificial flowers
26. Jacob Riis, “A class in the condemned Essex Market School,” c. 1890
27. Tenement, Brown Brothers [could not locate]
28. Jessie Tarbox Beals, “Visiting Nurse on Hester Street, traveling over rooftops”