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Life in a Big Urban City in the Gilded Age

Life in a Big Urban City in the Gilded Age. Megalopolis. Mass Transit. Magnet for economic and social opportunities. Pronounced class distinctions. - Inner & outer core New frontier of opportunity for women. Squalid living conditions for many. Political machines. Ethnic neighborhoods.

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Life in a Big Urban City in the Gilded Age

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  1. Life in a Big Urban City in the Gilded Age

  2. Megalopolis. Mass Transit. Magnet for economic and social opportunities. Pronounced class distinctions. - Inner & outer core New frontier of opportunity for women. Squalid living conditions for many. Political machines. Ethnic neighborhoods. Characteristics of UrbanizationDuring the Gilded Age

  3. NewUse ofSpace NewClassDiversity NewArchitectural Style New Energy NewSymbols ofChange &Progress The City as aNew “Frontier?” New Culture(“Melting Pot”) Make a NewStart New Form ofClassic “RuggedIndividualism” New Levels of Crime, Violence, & Corruption

  4. John A. Roebling:The Brooklyn Bridge, 1883 http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/national-geographic-channel/full-episodes/man-made/ngc-bridges-of-nyc.html

  5. John A. Roebling:The Brooklyn Bridge, 1913

  6. A centennial “birthday present” from the French people, the Statue of Liberty arrived from France in 1886. Lady Liberty Being Readied for Travel

  7. Statue of Liberty, 1876(Frederic Auguste Bartholdi)

  8. Inscription on the Statue of Liberty Author: Emma Lazarus Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses, yearning to breath free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest tossed, I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

  9. Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lived(1890)

  10. Italian Immigrants Arriving at Ellis Island, ca. 1910

  11. Tenement Slum Living

  12. Mulberry Street Bend, 1889

  13. Hester Street – Jewish Section

  14. 5-Cent Lodgings

  15. Men’s Lodgings

  16. Women’s Lodgings

  17. Immigrant Family Lodgings

  18. Jewish Women Working in a Sweatshop, ca. 1910

  19. These immigrant children playing games at the settlement house that Jane Addams founded in Chicago were having some fun while also getting instruction from a settlement house worker in how to be a proper American. Hull House

  20. Older immigrants, trying to keep their own humble arrival in America “in the shadows,” sought to close the bridge that had carried them and their ancestors across the Atlantic. Looking Backward

  21. Dumbbell Tenement Plan Tenement House Act of 1879, NYC

  22. “Dumbell “ Tenement, NYC

  23. St. Patrick’s Cathedral

  24. Thousands of Chicagoans found the gospel and a helping hand at evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody’s church. Although Moody himself died in 1899, his successors continued to attract throngs of worshipers to his church, which could hold up to ten thousand people. Morning Service at Moody’s Church, 1908

  25. In a famous speech in New Orleans in 1895, Washington grudgingly acquiesced in social separateness for blacks. On that occasion, he told his largely white audience, “In all things that are purely social, we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.” Booker T. Washington (1856–1915)

  26. In 1961, at the end of a long lifetime of struggle for racial justice in the United States, Du Bois renounced his American citizenship at the age of ninety-three and took up residence in the newly independent African state of Ghana. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963)

  27. Blind Beggar, 1888

  28. Italian Rag-Picker

  29. 1890s ”Morgue” – Basement Saloon

  30. ”Black & Tan” Saloon

  31. ”Bandits’ Roost”

  32. Mullen’s Alley ”Gang”

  33. The Street Was Their Playground

  34. Lower East Side Immigrant Family

  35. A Struggling Immigrant Family

  36. Another Struggling Immigrant Family

  37. Shirtwaist Workers Strike 1909 - 1910

  38. Rosa Schneiderman, Garment Worker

  39. Child Labor

  40. Average Shirtwaist Worker’s Week

  41. Womens’ Trade Union League

  42. Women Voting for a Strike!

  43. Local 25 with Socialist Paper, The Call

  44. Social and Political Activists Carola Woerishoffer,Bryn Mawr Graduate Clara Lemlich,Labor Organizer

  45. Public Fear of Unions/Anarchists

  46. Arresting the Girl Strikersfor Picketing

  47. Scabs Hired

  48. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, March 25, 1911

  49. “The Shirtwaist Kings”Max Blanck and Isaac Harris

  50. Triangle Shirtwaist FactoryAsch Building, 8th and 10th Floors

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