Chapter 34

Stenographer: "Every morning Tateh worked on the scenario of his fifteen-chapter photoplay, dictating his ideas to the hotel stenographer and reading the typewritten pages of the previous days work"A person skilled in the art or process of writing in shorthand

Nouveaux riches: "...who had come here years before hoping to marry their title to the daughters of the nouveaux riches."
a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class

Behemoth: "It was this behemoth who stirred on her stool and quivered as the children came before her."
Something enormous in size or power

THE ENTERTAINMENT: "But the real excitement was in the attractions the adults would not dream of patronizing: the freak shows, the Penny arcades, the tableaux vivants."

The Freak Shows: A freak show is an exhibition of biological rarities, referred to as "freaks of nature".

The Penny Arcades: The penny arcade can be any type of venue for coin-operated devices, usually for entertainment. This included early forms of pinball and fortune-telling machinery of the 1930s and slot machines.

The Tableaux Vivants: Tableau vivant means "living picture". The term describes a group of suitably costumed actors or artist's models, carefully posed and often theatrically lit

Winslow Homer:

 “Tateh recognized in her wet form the ample woman in the Winslow Homer painting who is being rescued from the sea by towline”

Winslow Homer as a great American landscape painter and printmaker. He started his career as a commercial illustrator consequently took oil paintings and produced a major studied works. This man can represented what was Tateh, because Tateh was just a simple worker that create scrapbooks from there became famous.

Pierport Morgan's Library: "Coalhouse’s gang had broken into one of the city;s most celebrated depositories of art, Pierpont Morgan's library on 36th street”

Morgan was a powerful man during the 1900s, he owned oil companies, was a banker but also a collector of paintings , books, among other art projects. This library was opened to the public in 1924, Morgan did this in honor of his father. In Ragtime it is used as target of justice that Coalhouse wanted, it was destroyed.

Chapter 23

Discrimination has exist since the begin of history, in this chapter there is a clear example of discrimination toward the colored people.

Firehouse's Chief: “the chief in his white Military cap and green Bohemian tie”

Chief has always have a well respect people, however during the 1990s they were guide by the idea of discrimination. Especially because in the time there were new changes in the country, the ideas that protect was not obtained until years after.
      

Chapter 12

Sobarny Cigarettes: "A day in his flat and he did not est or say anything, brooding, as he smoked endlessly his Sobarny cigarettes..."

The Sobarny cigarette brand is one of the oldest tobacco brands in the world.

Pantographs: "The flashes of electricity from their pantographs crackling along the over head wires in minute..."

An instrument for copying a plane figure to a desired scale.

Vaudeville: "The electric light bulbs of each vaudeville house rippled in a particular pattern."
Vaudeville was a theatrical genre of variety entertainment in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s.

Terminus: "One could travel great distance on hard rush seats or wooden benches by taking each line to its terminus and transferring to the next"The final point; the end.

Tom Thumb: "This took them up through the cities of Standford, Norwalk and then to Bridgeport, the burial place of Tom Thumb."
Tom Thumb is a character of English folklore. The History of Tom Thumb was published in 1621, and has the distinction of being the first fairy tale printed in English. Tom is no bigger than his father's thumb, and his adventures include being swallowed by a cow, tangling with giants, and becoming a favorite of King Arthur.

Versts: "He saw the village of his youth going by now, some versts beyond the meadow."

A Russian measure of length, about 0.66 mile (1.1 km).

Chapter 10

Roosevelt: “The members of the expedition lived in surprising comfort aboard the Roosevelt, which had been lifted in its berth by the winter floes until it sat like a walnut in icing. (pg. 61)”

The Roosevelt was a ship owned and funded by Robert E. Peary. The ship was expressly designed for Arctic work, and incorporated many innovations.

Player Piano: “[Peary] had a player piano in his stateroom. (pg. 61)”
A player piano is fitted with an apparatus enabling it to be played automatically

Victor Herbert and Rudolf Friml: “He was supplied with rolls of the best Victor Herbert and Rudolf Friml numbers... (pg. 61)”

Victor Herbert (February 1, 1859 – May 26, 1924) was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist, and conductor. A prolific composer, Herbert produced two operas, acantata, 43 operettas, incidental music to 10 plays, 31 compositions for orchestra, nine band compositions, nine cello compositions, five violin compositions with piano or orchestra, 22 piano compositions and numerous songs, choral compositions and orchestrations of works by other composers, among other music.

Rudolf Friml (December 7, 1879 – November 12, 1972) was a composer of operetta, musicals, songs and piano pieces, as well as a pianist.

Esquimos: “Peary defined the virtues of Esquimos as loyalty and obedience, roughly the same virtues one sought in the dogs” (p. 78-79).

Most of the times the Esquimos are in group, they work together in order to survive in their habit.

Life: Eskimos most of times relied in sea mammals as food. Eskimos are recognized because they elaborate technologies, artisanship, and well developed art.

Henson: “Henson chose the Esquimos who in his judgement were the best boys, the most loyal and devoted to the Commander”(Pg. 79)

Matthew Henson was 18 years old when he decided to take the risk to go an expedition but because racism in that time it was hard for him to find someone that hire him. After he went back to the east coast he met Peary who contracted him to go the expedition at Nicaragua.

North Pole: “the weather was a constant torment, the wind blowing so sharply at fifty or sixty degrees below zero” (p. 78)
It is recognize because the temperature is one of the lowest; however it is a little bit more warmer then South Pole.


History: North Pole was not discover until Peary’s expedition, in the other hand there was another man that claimed that was him that Discover North Pole named Frederick Albert Cook but he did not have convincing proof to prove his point.

Chapter 33

Captain Von Papen is a German man who is attracted to Mother. Mother ignores him.

Chapter 22

Mother Earth is a magazine that Emma Goldman founded.

Chapter 5

Harry K. Thaw was in jail with Henry Houdini. Thaw did not like black people. When Houdini was trying to escape, he fell into Thaw's cell.

People in jail would call a jail cell "Tombs." The inmates were forced to stay there and they were not getting out.

Chapter 39 David Chun and Chae Lee

T-Model [1900s]


This model is the car that Coalhouse wants to repair. This is the acutal model of the car he rode.
Sadly, this car is broke down because of the incident in the chapter 28. He demands his justice.














Booker T. Washington




He fights with the District Attorney for what happened to Coalhouse. However, he makes no appearance in Chapter 39.

Henry Ford [1900s]

This is Henry Ford, the business man who invented the assembly line to increase profit by increasing the speed of product line. Coalhouse appears to have the T-model car from the Ford's company.

Chapter 28 David Chun and Chae Lee

The Street View of NY [1900s]




The Fire House is in the background, and this is the street view.
The Fire house has a big entrance and a large space that could store a horse and a fire engine.













Fire Fighters in NY [1900s]



The fire fighters in NY, early 1900s.
A man attacked the six fire fighters in chapter 28.



















The Luger Po8 [1900 model.]





Father took his gun out of the drawer after he notices the explosion. This Luger is used in American Navy forces, and America bought 1000 of this model. This is the early version of Luger, the legendary pistol.















Car [1902 model]


When Coalhouse is involved with the fireman's explosion incident, he demands his justice, and wants to call Fire Chief of the Volunteers. This is the image of a car in early 1900s. He might have rode similar design and concept.



















Steam Engine Car [1900s]

The Steam Engine that was used in the early 1900s.
It makes its appearance in chapter 28, during the incident when the firemans were shot. This steam engine car works like a miniature steam-engine train, and unfortunately the accident killed one of the fireman.

Music of the Era (1900's) by Juan Luis and Clara

The 1910s were called the Ballroom Decade. Many of the trendier restaurants were equipped with dance floors. Black Americans continued to write and perform ragtime, blues and jazz. Popular songs of the decade (many made popular because of WWI) included Alexander's Ragtime Band (Irving Berlin), Danny Boy, You Made Me Love You (Al Jolson), Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life, The Aba Daba Honeymoon, and All I Do is Dream of You.War songs