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Life in a Big Urban City in the Gilded Age

Life in a Big Urban City in the Gilded Age. Jacob Riis' How the Other Half Lives (1890). Mulberry Street Bend, 1889. 5-Cent Lodgings. Men’s Lodgings. Women’s Lodgings. Immigrant Family Lodgings. Dumbbell Tenement Plan. Tenement House Act of 1879 , NYC. Blind Beggar, 1888.

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Life in a Big Urban City in the Gilded Age

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  1. Life in a Big Urban City in the Gilded Age

  2. Jacob Riis' How the Other Half Lives (1890)

  3. Mulberry Street Bend, 1889

  4. 5-Cent Lodgings

  5. Men’s Lodgings

  6. Women’s Lodgings

  7. Immigrant Family Lodgings

  8. Dumbbell Tenement Plan Tenement House Act of 1879, NYC

  9. Blind Beggar, 1888

  10. Italian Rag-Picker

  11. 1890s ”Morgue” – Basement Saloon

  12. ”Black & Tan” Saloon

  13. ”Bandits’ Roost”

  14. Mullen’s Alley ”Gang”

  15. The Street Was Their Playground

  16. Lower East Side Immigrant Family

  17. A Struggling Immigrant Family

  18. Another Struggling Immigrant Family

  19. Shirtwaist Workers Strike 1909 - 1910

  20. Rosa Schneiderman, Garment Worker

  21. Child Labor

  22. Average Shirtwaist Worker’s Week

  23. Womens’ Trade Union League

  24. Women Voting for a Strike!

  25. The Uprising of the Twenty Thousands (Dedicated to the Waistmakers of 1909) In the black of the winter of nineteen nine,When we froze and bled on the picket line,We showed the world that women could fightAnd we rose and won with women's might. Chorus:Hail the waistmakers of nineteen nine,Making their stand on the picket line,Breaking the power of those who reign,Pointing the way, smashing the chain. And we gave new courage to the menWho carried on in nineteen tenAnd shoulder to shoulder we'll win through,Led by the I.L.G.W.U.

  26. Local 25 with Socialist Paper, The Call

  27. Social and Political Activists Carola Woerishoffer,Bryn Mawr Graduate Clara Lemlich,Labor Organizer

  28. Public Fear of Unions/Anarchists

  29. Arresting the Girl Strikersfor Picketing

  30. Scabs Hired

  31. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, March 25, 1911

  32. “The Shirtwaist Kings”Max Blanck and Isaac Harris

  33. Triangle Shirtwaist FactoryAsch Building, 8th and 10th Floors

  34. Typical NYC Sweatshop, 1910

  35. Typical NYC Sweatshop, 1910

  36. Typical NYC Sweatshop, 1910

  37. Typical NYC Sweatshop, 1910

  38. Typical NYC Sweatshop, 1910

  39. Typical NYC Sweatshop, 1910

  40. Inside the Building After the Fire

  41. Most Doors Were Locked

  42. Crumpled Fire Escape, 26 Died

  43. One of the Heroes

  44. 10th Floor After the Fire

  45. Dead Bodies on the Sidewalk

  46. One of the “Lucky” Ones?

  47. Rose SchneidermanThe LastSurvivor

  48. Scene at the Morgue

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