20th Century History By the Decades
From the Chico High School Library

Touring Turn of the Century America
This collection offers over 25,000 photographs of a wide variety of people, pleaces and events taken from 1880 to 1920, mostly in the eastern United States.

The Changing Character of Immigration: 1900-01
This brief essay on immigration during the early 1900s includes images and statistics about the immigrants and their home countries.

New York City's Lower East Side, 1880-1920
This collection of articles, documentary sources, and study guides was compiled to describe New York City's Lower East Side during the period 1880-1920.

Americans In The Raw, 1900
This article, illustrated with photographs, looks at the high-tide of immigrants at the turn of the century, their strange possessions and their meager wealth-- what becomes of them.

America 1900: Primary Sources
From the PBS film,America 1900, which presents a comprehensive picture of what life was like in the United States at the turn of the century. Offers images, information, and documents about American life at that time.

America 1900: Historian Interview Transcripts
From the PBS film,America 1900, which presents a comprehensive picture of what life was like in the United States at the turn of the century. Offers interviews with historians about American life at that time.

Historic American Sheet Music: 1900-1909
This digital images are from a larger collection of sheet music, published in America between 1850 and 1920. This section covers the first decade of the 20th Century.

Images of Homes From the Arts & Crafts Era
A popular style of interior and architectural design that became popular around the early 1900s. These images show inside rooms with furnishings, and also one exterior drawing.

Timeline of Costume History: 1900-1910
A collection of links to many images of clothing styles that were popular during the end of the 19th Century and the first decades of the 20th Century are provided here.

Women's Hats 1890-1914 From The Costumer's Manifesto
Many women's hat styles that were popular during the beginning of the 20th Century are shown here.

Of Men & Their Elegance The Costumer's Manifesto
Many images of male clothing styles that were popular during the 1890s-1930s, as the period was subtitled "Sports' Second Wave". Illustrations are accompanied with commentaries on the styles.

Coal Mining in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
A collection of links to sites that document the lives and struggles of coal miners in the early 1900s. Includes hazards, disasters, daily life, strikes and the communities where they lived and worked.

Coal Mining Machinery at the Turn-of-the-Century
Images of coal mining equipment, from either advertisements conducted by the companies that manufactured mining machinery, or from articles appearing in Cassier's Magazine, a journal dedicated to engineering.

The Anthracite Coal Strike
This page links to primary source documents related to strikes in the coal fields of Pennsylvania. Includes articles from news media of the time, including editorial cartoons.

Steel Workers in the Early 1900s
A collection of primary sources, including media articles and images of steel workers, mills, and related resources. See also: History of the American Steel Industry and its People.

The South Texas Border
Photographs form the Texas-Mexico border area from the period 1900-1910, including some that document the Mexican Revolution. An excellent essay accompanies the collection, The Mexican Revolution: Conflict in Matamoros.

The Chicago Strike of 1905
This is an illustrated article about a large strike of garment and textile workers, taken from The World's Work, Vol. 10, 1905.