Information Resources for 
Ms. Bruchler's Gilded Age Assignment

A Most Excellent Starting Place for Information
The Discovering Collection: History and Culture

 
General Sites and Overviews of the Gilded Age and Historical Era 

A Model & Timeline: The Gilded Age and the Politics of Corruption
America 1900: People & Events
Timeline for Gilded Age: Selected People and Events
Images of the Gilded Age and Beyond: 1872-1913

Social Conditions and Issues 

How the Other Half Lives  and How The Other Half Lives: List of Illustrations
Child Labor in America
America at Work / America at Leisure, 1894-1915

A Focus on Wealth 

The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie ; also see: Vanderbilt Chateau

Editorial and Opinion Cartoons

Thomas Nast Cartoons
Immigrant and Ethnic America at HarpWeek
Prints Old & Rare -Thomas Nast page
"Uniting Mugwumps and the Masses: Puck's Role in Gilded Age Politics"

 

Advertising 

Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920

 

Railroads 

Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
Railroad History, Railways, Locomotives, etc.

 

Jim Crow

The History of Jim Crow
Jim Crow Legislation Overview 
The Racial Customs and Rules of Racial Behavior in Jim Crow America
Creating Jim Crow: In-Depth Essay
Surviving Jim Crow: In-Depth Essay
Resisting Jim Crow: In-Depth Essay 
African Americans in 'The White City:' The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893
The Historic Black Press--Overview Essay 
The Paris Exposition of 1900 and W.E.B. Du Bois 
Paris Exposition Universelle Collection
TheJim Crow Image Gallery
The Jim Crow Encyclopedia
Jim Crow Gateway to Additional Web Information

Additional "Gilded Age" Web Resources

Gilded Age and Progressive Era Websites

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This collection of information resources was created by the CHS Librarian for Ms. Bruchler's "Gilded Age" research assignment. 1-29-07.