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The Industrial City

The Industrial City. c. 1870-1930. My Three Topics Tonight. The City as Social History The City as Cultural History The City as Textbook. Big Cities Get Big. 1870. 1920. New York 950,000 Philadelphia 675,000 Chicago 300,000. New York 5.6 Mill Chicago 2.7 Mill Philadelphia 1.8 Mill

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The Industrial City

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  1. The Industrial City c. 1870-1930

  2. My Three Topics Tonight • The City as Social History • The City as Cultural History • The City as Textbook

  3. Big Cities Get Big 1870 1920 • New York 950,000 • Philadelphia 675,000 • Chicago 300,000 • New York 5.6 Mill • Chicago 2.7 Mill • Philadelphia 1.8 Mill • Detroit 1 Mill • Cleveland 800,000

  4. Pittsburgh Steel Mill

  5. Immigration Profile

  6. New Immigrations

  7. The Structure of Immigration • Europe Also Industrializing • Population Dislocation and Movement • Immigrants part of world-wide population movement • Craftsmen and small independent farmers • Marginal farmers; children of land owners • Both groups already exposed to dynamics of capitalism

  8. Yearning to Breathe Free?Or to Make a Buck?

  9. The Immigrant Neighborhood The City as Patchwork Quilt

  10. Uprooted or Transplanted?

  11. THE CITY IN THE IMAGINATION

  12. Theodore DreiserSister Carrie 1901

  13. Social Realism &“The Eight” The “Ashcan School” • John Sloan • Arthur Davies • George Luks, • Everett Shinn • Maurice Prendergast • Robert Henri • William Glackens • Ernest Lawson

  14. John Sloan,“Women Drying Their Hair,” 1912

  15. John Sloan,“Hairdresser’s Window,” 1907

  16. The Jazz Age happens in the city

  17. The City as tEXTBOOK How to “read” the city?

  18. History visible to the naked eye

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