1. Industrial America in “The Gilded Age”

2. I. Captains of Industry Robber Barons Andrew Carnegie, Carnegie Steel
Rockefeller & Standard Oil’s Monopoly
Social Darwinism, Origin of Species (1859)

3. Andrew Carnegie

5. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil

6. II. America’s New Labor Supply
New Wave of Immigration, 1880
Segmented Working Class
Dangerous Working and Living Conditions

7. New Wave of Immigration, 1880 - 1915
1870 – 1880 = 2.8 million
1880 – 1890 = 5.2 million

9. Oyster Canning Factory, Alabama, 1911
Glass Worker, Virginia, 1911

10. Globe Cotton Mill, 1909
Pennsylvania Coal Mine, 1911

11. Women’s Factory Work

12. III. Labor Strikes Back in the Gilded Age
Trade Unionism
Knights of Labor, Terence Powderly
Haymarket Square Riot, Chicago, 1886
American Federation of Labor, Samuel Gompers

13. Knights of Labor
Terence Powderly

14. Haymarket Square Riot, 1886

15. American Federation of Labor’s Samuel Gompers
Recruited U.S.-born Skilled workers
“Pure and Simple” Moderate Unionism

16. What was it like to live in a city during the Gilded Age?
Newberry Street, New York City, 1905

17. Hester Street, New York City, 1904

18. IV. Party Politics in the City: Bosses & Machines
Partisan Voters
City “Machines” and “Bosses”
New York’s Tammany Hall & Boss Tweed
Boss Tweed

19. Puck Magazine, 1894

20. V. Poverty in the City Ellis Island Tenement Housing
Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives (1890)
Forms of Leisure
Times Square, New York, 1904

21. Ellis Island

22. Ellis Island Medical Exam, 1913

24. Angel Island Immigration Station

25. Tenement Housing, New York City

26. Tenement Apartment, New York, 1890s

27. Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives

28. Forms of Leisure: Coney Island, Brooklyn

29. VI. Middle Class Society & Culture
Victorian Morality
Cult of Domesticity
Department Stores, “Palaces of Consumption”
Tea room inside The Emporium, 1904

30. Catherine Beecher’s The American Woman’s Home (1869)
Behaviors to avoid: Reaching over another person’s plate; standing up to reach distant articles instead of asking to have those passed; using the table-cloth instead of napkins; eating fast and in a noisy manner; putting large pieces in the mouth; and picking the teeth at the table.

31. Window Shopping outside Macy’s
Macy’s, New York,1900
Dome of Marshall Fields, Chicago