SENSATION! Reported Bodies in 19th Century American Media
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Excerpt of New York Times article “How to Stop Straining Your Eyes”
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Still frame from 2024 Skyrizi Commercial
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Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells (1970)
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The Shame of America, ca. 1921
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“An Insane Hall”
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“Nellie Practices Insanity at Home”
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Ten days in a mad-house: or, Nellie Bly's experience on Blackwell's island. Feigning insanity in order to reveal asylum horrors. The trying ordeal of the New York World's girl correspondent.
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“They Called Her the Amazing Nellie Bly”
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“They Called Her the Amazing Nellie Bly”
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The mystery of Marie Roget, by Edgar Allan Poe; with historical and critical comments by Henry Austin
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Beautiful Victim of the Elm City (1881)
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Murdered by lust, or, The mystery of Savin Rock: the complete history of the romantic tragedy by which Jennie Cramer lost her life
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“The Late Jennie Cramer. A Western Paper Draws a Moral from the Search for Poison,” ca. 1881–82
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“Plan of the Bars and Channels,” ca. 1881–82
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Summary of the Results on the Toxical Examination of the Body of Jennie Cramer, ca. 1881–82
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Portrait of Jennie Cramer, engraved and reprinted, ca. 1881–82
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Funeral car that conveyed the remains of Abraham Lincoln (1865)
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Abraham Lincoln, death bed (1865)
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Chair occupied by Abraham Lincoln during his assassination (1865)
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Ford's Theatre. John Wilkes Booth escaping on horseback from the rear of Ford's Theater after assassinating Abraham Lincoln (1865)
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Ford's Theatre. Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (1865)
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Original Photographs Taken during the War of 1861–1865 (1865)
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Mathew Brady's Daguerrian Saloon at 359 Broadway Avenue, New York City (ca. 1862)
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NYT Commentary on Brady's Photography
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Union Army dead on the field of battle of first day (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1, 1863)