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Doolan Finds Envelop with Ten Thousand Dollars
John Doolan, a starving man in New York, finds an envelope on a Harlem train seat containing a letter and ten thousand dollars. He imagines escape from poverty but is unsettled by the prospect and returns to his tenement room to dream of wealth. The scene contrasts his harsh surroundings with sudden wealth and temptation.
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Zoe Anderson Norris
John Doolan
Ninth Avenue
Rector Street
Doolan
Carrier
Harlem
Twenty-eighth Street