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“Bootstraps Uplift”: Messages and Mythologies of the New Industrial Order. McGuffey’s Eclectic Reader, 1870. Children in front of Oak Square School, Massachusetts, 1855. “ Mrs Auld Teaching Him to Read,” an i llustration from the biography of Frederick Douglass.
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“Bootstraps Uplift”: Messages and Mythologies of the New Industrial Order
“Mrs Auld Teaching Him to Read,” an illustration from the biography of Frederick Douglass
Mark Twain and Charles Dudley, Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, 1873
A Jewish immigrant family sewing garter belts for income, c. 1890
The Royal Path of Life: Aids to Success and Happiness (1877)