Contrasts in Lifestyle

WALL STREET AND BROADWAY — WAYS OF GETTING AND SPENDING MONEY

It is difficult to see but the images from in the top row from left to right are marked "Robbery", "Forgery", "Burglary" "Carrotte"

In the bottom row there is no notation on the harbor scene, next is "Flight", Outrage", "Murder"

Drink (and perhaps "loose women") seems to be a vice of both social circles.

An Apartment Interior

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A Drawing-Room In A Flat

In 1903 $500 a month would rent a 10 room luxury apartment with steam heat, elevators, electric lights and servants rooms.

Entrance to Vanderbilt Residence, N. Y.

THE LANDLORD

THE TENANT

THE WORK OF THE CENSUS ENUMERATOR, Harpers Weekly, JUNE 1890

This image indicates that even those who were better off could become upset for some reason by the census takers questions.

See comparative image at Tenement Life

NEW YEARS CALL 1873, HARPERS WEEEKLY JANUARY 4, 1873

Both the "upper" class and the "lower" class seemed to have been fond of the theater, especially when music was involved.

Max Alvary as Siegfried, Marie Brema as Ortrude,Nicholas Rothmuhl as Lohengrin

GERMAN OPERA IN NEW YORK

Harpers Weekly, February 9, 1895

Uptown at the Metropolitan Opera House the swells were entertained by the greatest singers of they day presenting Wagner.

OPERA BEFORE THE CURTAIN

Harpers Weekly, February 16, 1895

HOW THE OTHER HALF LAUGHS

Harpers Monthly December 1898

Quite frequently there are images and articles comparing the haves and the have nots; most certainly representing the long established "Americans" versus the new arrivals.

The article that accompanied the following two images in the Illustrated London News December 3, 1864 makes the following distinctions the polling places in the "Upper Ten Thousand" and the "Lower Twenty"

The "Upper Ten" were situated "near the fashionable avenues which run out northward, through the aristocratic quarter". The images shows "knots of the richer class" discussing the potential outcome of the election. However, there are is a "sprinkling of the rougher element" who were attired in red shirts, pilot coat, and "heavy cowskin boots pulled over their trousers" — "a style of costume which shows them to be members of some Fire Company".

The "Lower Twenty" is pictured in "some dirty and unwholesomethe polling day the police were out in force and the liquor stores were closed.

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