1. Life at the Turn of the Century

2. The Rise of the Cities
Engineering innovations change the look of the cities
Skyscrapers change the skyline
Wainright in St. Louis
Flatiron in New York

4. Home Insurance Building

5. Chicago skyline

7. New suspension bridges New planned parks New city planning designs
Daniel Burnham (Chicago)

8. Brooklyn Bridge 1883

10. Central Park New York City

12. New Technologies New Printing methods Creation of the airplane
Print on both sides at the same time
Literacy up around 90%
Creation of the airplane
Affordable hand held camera
Rolls of film instead of glass plates

18. Education Mandated children go to school @ certain times
Kindergarten created
High Schools expand
Immigrants encouraged to go to school

19. Less than 1% of African-Americans attended high school
Immigrants were encouraged to go to school
Americanize them
Parochial schools
Adult and night schools

20. Black Colleges: Women’s Colleges Business schools Howard Univ.
Smith (1871) Bryn Mawr (1880)
Business schools
Wharton U. of PA

21. City Life Department stores pop up.
Section 3
City Life
Department stores pop up.
A & P (1869) Macy’s (1858)
Woolworth’s (1879) Ward’s (1872) Sears
Major advertising everywhere. (billboards etc…)
Yellow journalism

22. Leisure Time Watch sporting events Ride bicycles Theater
Baseball (Cincinnati Red Stockings ,1869)
Ride bicycles
Theater
Circus, Vaudeville, Burlesque