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Title: Seeing America first : with the Berry brothers
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Colby, Eleanor Pfeiffer, F. W, ill Berry Brothers
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Publisher: Detroit : Berry Bros.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ery quaint, and the glass for the windows and the hand-painted paper forthe walls came over from France. We saw the narrow hall where the sentry paced back andforth as he guarded Washingtons slumber, and the council chamber where the general and hisstaff decided so many questions. There is the cupboard where Andre, the spy, hid, but the secretpassage down to the river has been closed because of the river rats. After the war the Jumels, (some wealthy French people) bought the house, and later MadameJumel married the famous Aaron Burr. Jerome Bonaparte, brother of the Emperor Napoleon, oncevisited Madame Jumel in this house, and many other distinguished people have slept under itsroof. It is the most interesting house we have ever seen, and someway it has made United Stateshistory seem more real than it does in the school books. Anyway, when at sunset we went down to the harbor and looked out at the Statue of Liberty,she seemed to sort of belong to us and to all American boys and girls.
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An architect said to us: New York has a wonderful skyline. He explained that the sky-line is the silhouette that the buildings make against the sky. In some cities the buildings are sonearly one height that the skyline is level and uninteresting, but in New York there are tall sky-scrapers, low buildings, domes, towers, and smokestacks, so that the skyline is full of variety.The picture shows the skyline of lower New York as we saw it from Brooklyn Bridge, which isthe oldest bridge connecting Brooklyn with Manhattan. It is over a mile long. The bridgewas designed by John Roebling, but he died before it was begun. His son took his place, but heworked so hard planning and superintending the work that in three years he became an invalid.Then he took a house overlooking the bridge, and from his invalid chair he watched through atelescope and directed all the work till it was completed ten years later. Not far from Brooklyn Bridge is the Stock Exchange, which is the most famous businessbui

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