1. Music Ragtime Created by African American musicians in the 1890s.
Scott Joplin “King of Ragtime”
1899, “Maple Leaf Rag” was a hit selling hundreds of thousands of copies.
Inspired new dances like the Cakewalk
Led to Blues and later Rock n Roll

3. Entertainment Theater Attracted wealthy audience
Edwin Booth popular Shakespearean actor 1860s – 1870s.
Cost up to $125 in 1869
Movies
First The Great Train Robbery
Shown in 5 cent “Nickelodeons”
Nickel+odeon (small theater in Greek)

4. Vaudeville (French for “light play”)
Working class preferred melodramatic shows
Featured short performances like animal acts, juggling, comics, singers etc

6. Entertainment Amusement Parks
Often built outside of town by trolley companies to attract passengers.
Coney Island, It had an early roller coaster
World Exposition, Chicago - the first Ferris wheel
Cost 10 cents

9. The Circus P.T. Barnum and Bailey in 1871 Traveled from town to town

12. Sports Tennis - Originated in U.K. 1880s first tennis court in NYC
Basketball
Invented by James Naismith, Springfield Mass. in 1891.
One of few sports in which women were encouraged

14. Boxing
Profitable business. Those that couldn’t pay to watch, gathered to get reports from the telegraph

15. Sports
Football
Developed in late 1800s at college campuses in New England
Congress banned it because of violence, but rule changes made it less dangerous.

17. Sports Baseball Mid 1800s - Based on British game “rounders”
1869, Aaron Champion organized first pro (paid) team - Cincinnati Red Stockings
National League, 1876
American League, 1900
1903 first World Series – Pittsburgh Pirates and Boston Red Sox; Pirates won
African Americans excluded from league and had to start their own

19. Outdoor Activities Parks
Used as a space to relax / escape crowded city
1857, Frederick Law Olmsted designed Central Park in NYC
2.5 miles
30,000 a day visited
“City Beautiful Movement” –
stressed the importance of parks and attractive streets in cities
Parks cause outdoor activities like biking and croquet to be popular

20. City Beautiful
The City Beautiful Movement inspired urban beautification in architecture, landscaping and city planning in the United States from the 1890s through the 1920s. The City Beautiful ideology also emphasized tourism.

23. Sledding in Central Park 1914

24. Central Park

25. The Mall, Central Park. Around 1905.

27. Outdoor Activities Bicycles
First bicycles had a large front wheel and solid tires
1885 “safety bicycle” with smaller tires / air filled tires; very popular with women.
By 1890, 10 million per year

28. Bicycles
First bicycles had a large front wheel and solid tires
1885 “safety bicycle” with smaller tires / air filled tires; very popular with women. By 1890, 10 million per year