The “Terrible Seventies”

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Now Playing: Rusty York & the Kentucky Mountain Boys, “Over the Hill to the Poor House,” 1961 (original, 1874)

Golden Spike Ceremony, Promontory Summit, Utah, May 10, 1869

Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, 1876

Opening Day at the Exposition, May 1876

Corliss steam engine in Machinery Hall

Viewing the fair grounds from the Liberty Torch

Exposition visitors picnic in front of the Main Building

Missouri River Bridge under construction, 1873

Visitors marvel at a tower of Leviathan Paper

Exposition guidebook

“Panic of 1873”

Cartoonist Thomas Nast, “Panic on Wall Street,” 1876

William Beard, “Bulls and Bears in the Market,” 1879

Chicago Labor Riot, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated, August 1877

“The First Blow at the Chinese Question,” WASP (San Francisco), 1877

Ruins after Railroad Riots in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 1877