Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920 - (American Memory from the Library of Congress)
This collection of photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company Collection includes more than 25,000 glass negatives and transparencies as well as about 300 color photolithograph prints, mostly of the eastern United States
Excellent resource on turn of the century cities and disaster recovery. Many primary documents from police reports and eyewitness accounts to scientific journals and railway records. Be sure to look through the photographs. From the Virtual Museum of the city of San Fransisco
The coal smoke in Pittsburgh used to block out the sun
This series of photographs will help students better understand the pollution of the industrial age. Though today's students still face the challenge of climate change, they know little of the raw effects of America's industrial age
This selection of 38 pictures includes portraits of many individuals who have been frequently requested from the holdings of the Prints and Photographs Division and the Manuscript Division. Also featured are photographs of suffrage parades, picketing suffragists, and an anti-suffrage display, as well as cartoons commenting on the movement--all evoking the visible and visual way in which the debate over women's suffrage was carried out.
Panoramic Photographs (American Memory from the Library of Congress)
The Panoramic Photograph Collection contains approximately four thousand images featuring American cityscapes, landscapes, and group portraits. These panoramas offer an overview of the nation, its enterprises and its interests, with a focus on the start of the twentieth century when the panoramic photo format was at the height of its popularity. Subject strengths include: agricultural life; beauty contests; disasters; engineering work such as bridges, canals and dams; fairs and expositions; military and naval activities, especially during World War I; the oil industry; schools and college campuses, sports, and transportation. The images date from 1851 to 1991
Just something to throw on the screen before that Progressive's lesson. Do you and your student's accept it's authenticity? Is this really a colorized picture of NYC in 1900, or a movie set?
The Photos That Helped End Child Labor in the United States | Mother Jones
Although the claim announced in this article's headline could be the subject of a lesson that looks for causal evidence that proves a claim, the photos alone are worth a US History teacher's attention. Don't forget to remind the students who see these pictures that they are looking at their peers across time - theses children are the same age, or younger than our students
Not all information about ane era is contained in books, web sites and documentary videos - photographs of the era can tell a lot too - let students tell you what these images teach them about the Progressive Era
The hardcore teen bike messengers of the early 1900s
In 1908, the progressive National Child Labor Committee hired Lewis Hine, a New York sociologist and photographer, to document the exploitative working conditions of child laborers in dozens of occupations, from mining and manufacturing to farming and newspaper selling - this is his collection of photographs of bike messengers. Most of the messengers worked for telegraph companies or drug stores. The photos that Hine took became the face of the child labor reform movement and ultimately helped push through the 1916 passage of the Keatings-Owen Act, which set age and shift length restrictions for young workers. While the act was struck down by the Supreme Court, it set the stage for lasting reform to be created during the New Deal of the 1930s.
6 Lost Mansions of the Upper West Side and Upper Manhattan | Untapped Cities
Teachers will have to tear off the lcik bait and other junk from this web site. But the homes in this series have to put alongside Jacob Riis pictures. We should not be showing students just the Lewis Hine and Jacob Riis stuff - but we should also show them "how the other, other half lived"
Mulberry Street NYC c1900 LOC 3g04637u edit - History of New York City (1898–1945) - Wikipedia
Easy "Do Now" activity - have students play "hide and seek" by describing a detail in the image to the rest of the class and having the rest of the class look to find it. i.e the person farthest from the camera still looking at the camera, (note - click on the image for a much larger version)
