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.