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Dawn of Mass Culture

Dawn of Mass Culture 19 th century amusements: Horse racing, card playing, theater, baseball, dancing, parties Leisure Relief from city congestion & dull factories Amusement parks Built on green spaces Often built by trolley car companies Picnic grounds & rides Coney Island, NY

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Dawn of Mass Culture

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  1. Dawn of Mass Culture 19th century amusements: Horse racing, card playing, theater, baseball, dancing, parties

  2. Leisure • Relief from city congestion & dull factories • Amusement parks • Built on green spaces • Often built by trolley car companies • Picnic grounds & rides • Coney Island, NY • 1894- Roller Coaster! • World Columbian Expo- Chicago 1893

  3. More leisure • Bicycling • Male only till 1885: Safety bicycle • Smaller wheels, air filled tires • Women discard corsets • Shirtwaists & split skirts, to ride • Gave women a sense of freedom • Tennis • First seen in Wales, 1873

  4. New snacks: • Potato Chips - 1853 • Chewing Gum - 1870 • Coca Cola - 1886 • Designed by pharmacist to cure headaches • Cracker Jacks – 1893 • Hershey Bars - 1900 • Ice Cream cone - 1904 • Popsicle - 1905

  5. Sports • Spectator Sports • Boxing • Baseball • Telegraphed transmissions of contests at hotel lobbies & barber shops • Based on Rounders, English sport • By 1860s, many clubs across US • National League 1876 • American League 1900 • 1st World Series: 1903 • Negro Leagues founded

  6. Spread of Mass Culture • Art galleries, Libraries, books • Motion Pictures • Newspapers • Pulitzer- NY World • Hearst- NY Journal, SF Examiner • Competed for readership- exaggerated stories • Yellow Journalism • Art • Realism • Thomas Eakins • Ashcan school • Gritty urban life scenes • Abstract (Europe) • Libraries spread (poor man’s university) • Fiction • Crime, Westerns • Realism- Jack London, Stephen Crane- show lower classes • Humor- Mark Twain

  7. Shopping • Malls (Arcades) • Cleveland, 1890 • Jewelry, leather goods, stationery • Bands play on Sundays • Department Stores • Marshall Field, Chicago • Geared to women shoppers • Bargain basement • Chains • Woolworth’s • Five & Dime stores • Advertising • Mostly patent medicines • Soaps, baking powders • Newspapers, magazines, billboards, barns, rocks • Catalogues & RFD • Montgomery Ward (1872) Sears (1886) • Rural Free Delivery- packages to your home!

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