Post on 22-Jan-2016
The Gilded Age
Lecture Outline: feliciaviator.com/history7B/schedule or bcourses
Now Playing: Tennessee Ernie Ford, “Sixteen Tons,” 1955 (original, ca. 1930)
Writers Mark Twain and Charles Dudley
Twain and Dudley, Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, 1873
Andrew Carnegie, U.S. Steel John D. Rockefeller, Standard Oil
McGuffey Eclectic Reader, 1870s
Illustration from McGuffey Eclectic Reader, 1877
“Charlie and Rob,” McGuffey Eclectic Reader, 1879
A modern schoolhouse in Boston, ca. 1890
Horatio Alger “rags to riches” novels
The Royal Path of Life: Aids to Success and Happiness, 1877
Albert Reid, “J.P Morgan”
C.J. Taylor, “King of the World”
“The Octopus,“ Puck
“Darwin’s Finches,” from Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, 1859
“Funny Little Government,” The Verdict
Home of Alexander Stewart, department store magnate, New York, ca. 1890
Garment workers for Alexander Stewart’s department stores, ca. 1875
Andrew Carnegie’s Fifth Avenue mansion, New York City
Joseph Stella, “Painter’s Row,” charcoal on paper, ca. 1908
Middle-class diners in a cosmopolitan restaurant, ca. 1880
A Jewish immigrant family sewing garter belts for income, c. 1890
Laborer and his family in a one-room tenement