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Labor Strike in 1920's
This image demonstrates a labor strike. The workers are upset with their low wages and poor working conditions. This image was taken during the Great Depression but it is described in the article that minority workers found little difference…
Next Year in America
This lithograph “A Happy New Year” was created between 1900 and 1920 and published by the Hebrew Publishing Company. It depicts on one side Russian Jews looking over the Atlantic ocean at Americans in the United States. You can tell by the…
Wall Street, around 1872
What's funny about this post is the fact that this picture would not be relevant to the thought of Wall Street. Considering that in today's Wall Street a picture of it would not include a sky because of New York's architectural advances. It's also…
Broadway Contrasts. George Beban and Holbrook Blinn.
Below is a image that is titled "Broadway Contrasts. George Beban and Holbrook Blinn." and it features two men back-to-back who were famous actors at the time. The man on the right is Holbrook Blinn who looks more business dressed with a rounded hat…
Standard Oil
The Gilded Age, and the years leading up to it, introduced a new kind of wealth, one that was controlled by a select elite. These "Captains of Industry" were coined as Robber Barons by their critics and consisted of JP Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, Andrew…
Finis Coronat Opus
On the day of the grand opening of the Brooklyn Bridge, The Daily Graphic released this edition of the magazine. In the picture, the bridge rises high into the sky. It is so large that the city behind it looks flat. On the bridge stand two women, who…
The Grand Display of Fireworks and Illuminations
This picture located in digital collection of the New York Public Library depicts the Brooklyn Bridge on the day of it’s grand opening. The bridge officially opened in May 1883 with an elaborate opening ceremony. The ceremony was completed with a…
Vertical Wall Street
This graphic is composed of period panoramas from the 1850s to the 1930s that illustrate the vertical growth of buildings on Wall Street. It shows how the buildings on Wall Street from Broadway to Pearl Street have continued to grow taller and taller…
Brooklyn Bridge
This poem was written by Charles G. D. Roberts and published in the June 1899 issue of The Atlantic Monthly. The poem is about the Brooklyn Bridge and it shows some of the same themes that we have seen in other works. The author is clearly enthralled…
House of Prostitution
Census workers did an in-depth survey on American households and published their findings. In the column on “profession, occupation or trade”, certain houses of prostitution. The specific households of the prostitutes were published and were 114 West…
Prostitution Densities in Manhattan
The map specifically shows the areas of Manhattan during the 1870-1879 that had the most houses of prostitution. It is interesting that during this time there were such detailed records of blocks in where the most prostitutes were. This map was found…
St. Cloud Hotel, New York. Westminster Hotel, New York.
Cosmopolitan Hotel, New York. Hotel Brunswick, New York
This primary source is from Asher and Adams Atlas set and gives an overview of four of the newest and most luxurious hotels in New York City in 1875 and demonstrates how progression of the period was clearly represented in hotels. For example, the…
"Are Friends Clear of Materialism?"
Mary A. Nichols provides her account on what is changing in the Gilded Age through the Friend's Intelligencer. She points out that the religious values people hold during the 1890s are weakening due to the increased materialism of churches and…
New York City as Seen from Williamsburg
This image is a valuable tool in terms of understanding the history of New York City. Taken in 1848, the image highlights a busy New York City. The boat traffic in the river helps to build an understanding of how goods, services and people made it to…