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Wiley & Putnam’s Emigrant’s Guide, 1845 Second cabin passengers are entitled to the use of the quarter-deck, but they should always remember that they, too, pay much less than those in the first cabin, and if the vessel be crowded, they should give...   High-res

Wiley & Putnam’s Emigrant’s Guide, 1845

Second cabin passengers are entitled to the use of the quarter-deck, but they should always remember that they, too, pay much less than those in the first cabin, and if the vessel be crowded, they should give way to those who pay the most.

New-York Tribune, August 7, 1841 A negro named Lyttleton has been sentenced, at New Orleans, to receive seventy-five lashes upon his bare back, and to wear an iron collar with THREE PRONGS around his neck for three months, for striking a white man!...   High-res

New-York Tribune, August 7, 1841

A negro named Lyttleton has been sentenced, at New Orleans, to receive seventy-five lashes upon his bare back, and to wear an iron collar with THREE PRONGS around his neck for three months, for striking a white man! Since the late rumor of an attempt at insurrection, the people of New Orleans have been very much incensed against the blacks, and seem determined to proceed with needless severity against those who offend.

New-York Tribune, August 7, 1841

‘But what of the Queen?’ you will say; ‘ and how does she look?’ - so natural is curiosity about one so young, and the accident heir to such a fortune. A lady too! Well, I will first tell you how she does not look. She does not look like any one of the thousand portraits I have seen of her. Painters may call them resemblances, but they are not like her. Sully’s is a fine picture, but too magnificent. The London artists have made numberless attempts; the windows are full of prints, the studios of busts, and the museums and bazaars of wax figures; but if any are curious enough to know how she does look, they must come to London, as I have done, and take a good long look at her.

She was twenty-two last May, but she does not appear so old. She is a little, delicate, fair-faced girl, with very light blue eyes, and glossy light hair, smoothly dressed off her forehead. Her teeth do not show as in her portraits, though I suppose they do a little when her face is at rest. I should call her rather pretty; there is a decided expression of gentle, innocent, girlish sweetness in her countenance - just such a face as one who looks on it may well remember for a day, and pray that it may never be clouded with the cares and splendid misery of a station such as hers. I do not know that hers is a crown of thorns; but I thought, and perhaps she thought, as she looked quickly and anxiously about her on the crown, of the mad and wicked attempt, not long since made near that very spot, to assassinate her and her husband, by a boy of eighteen.

Prince Albert is decidedly a handsome young man; and though he wears the abominable mustachios which almost brutalize the faces of three-fourths of the fashionables here, he appears to be a modest, unassuming, quiet, family kind of a personage. He keeps himself entirely clear of the politics of the day, and is never spoken of by any one except as the Queen’s husband.

New-York Tribune, December 4, 1841 Daguerreotype - Those who are not familiar with the new art of invention to which the above name has been given, will do well to like in upon Mr. Moraud, No. 192 Broadway, and observe it. They may there obtain...   High-res

New-York Tribune, December 4, 1841

Daguerreotype - Those who are not familiar with the new art of invention to which the above name has been given, will do well to like in upon Mr. Moraud, No. 192 Broadway, and observe it. They may there obtain Likenesses, perfectly correct in outline and drawing, at a trifling cost - Likenesses which need only the coloring to render them perfect Portraits. Travelers for pleasure, or in search of the picturesque, would find a Daguerreotype apparatus very convenient to take views of striking scenery, cliffs, vales, ruins &c., as the perfect fidelity of views so taken may be infinitely relied upon.