The Gilded Age and Industrialization

Intro > Michael Moore, Bowling for Columbine

Gilded Age > Who coined the term?

Gilded Age > Mark Twain

Corporations > Cornelius Vanderbilt,

Corporations > The race is on: "Admiral" Jim Fisk of the ERIE vs. Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt New York Central Lines.

Corporations > Henry Adams Criticized Corporations in His Autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams, 1918

Corporations > Conspicuous Display of Wealth, Millionaire’s Row, New York Carnegie MansionVanderbilt Chateau

Corporations > John D. Rockefeller, Portrait by John Singer Sargent, 1917

Corporations > John D. Rockefeller Founds a Day Nursery for Children of Working Italian Women, 1895

Strikes > “The Great Fire at Chicago,” Lithograph, 1871

Strikes > “Great Railway Station at Chicago--Departure of a Train,” Appleton’s Journal, 1870 supplement

Strikes > “Colonel Agramonte’s Cavalry Charging on the Mob, at the Halstead street Viaduct, in Chicago, July 16,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, August 11, 1877

Strikes > “Driving the Rioters from Turner Hall,” Harper’s Weekly, August 18, 1877

Strikes > “The Haymarket Riot,” Harper’s Weekly, May 15, 1886

Strikes > “The Haymarket Martyrs,” Anarchy and Anarchists, 1889

Strikes > “The First Dynamite Bomb Thrown in America,” Chicago Inter-Ocean Supplement, 1886

Strikes > Pin Protesting the Executions, Inscribed “Nov. 11, 1887”

Strikes > “Justice Hurling a Bomb,” Graphic News, June 5, 1886

Strikes > The Pullman Strike,

Railroads > The Celebration of the Meeting of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads at Promontory Point, Utah, May 10, 1869.

Railroads > A. J. Russell, “Chinese at Laying Last Rail UPRR,” stereoview

Social Darwinism > Charles Darwin

Social Darwinism > Herbert Spencer

Social Darwinism > Andrew Carnegie

Social Darwinism > Skull Types

Social Darwinism > Booker T. Washington

Social Darwinism > Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Compromise Speech A ship lost at sea for many days suddenly sighted a friendly vessel. From the mast of the unfortunate vessel was seen a signal: “Water, water. We die of thirst.” The answer from the friendly vessel at once came back: “Cast down your bucket where you are.” A second time, the signal, “Water, send us water!” went up from the distressed vessel. And was answered: “Cast down your bucket where you are.” A third and fourth signal for water was answered: “Cast down your bucket where you are.” The captain of the distressed vessel, at last heeding the injunction, cast down his bucket and it came up full of fresh, sparkling water from the mouth of the Amazon River. To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land, or who underestimate the importance of preservating friendly relations with the southern white man who is their next door neighbor, I would say: “Cast down your bucket where you are.” Cast it down, making friends in every manly way of the people of all races, by whom you are surrounded.

Social Darwinism > W. E. B. DuBois

Victorian Culture > Frontiespiece to John H. Young, Our Deportment, 1885

Victorian Culture > Family Gathering Around a Portrait for Its Patriarch, 1890

Victorian Culture > Conventional Woman’s Dress

Victorian Culture > Uncorseted Aesthetic Dress

Victorian Culture > “American Art,” Puck, December 31, 1879

Victorian Culture > “The Decorated Sisters”

Victorian Culture > “Burlesque and Variety Star”

Victorian Culture > Oscar Wilde card