Aspects of city life:

• Landscape
   
  • Skyscrapers developed
    • Started with the invention of the safety elevator in the 1880's
    • Steel used for framework
    • Solved space problems
  • City parks developed for recreation
    • Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 - Library of Congress
    • American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936 - Library of Congress
    • Mapping the National Parks - Library of Congress
  • Early San Francisco - Library of Congress
    • April 18, 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Damage
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      • Film 7
   
• Education
   
  • By 1900 elementary education was compulsory in most states and 72% of all school age children were in school, mostly in cities
  • High school attendance was not compulsory, but by 1910 most white males went to high school, even though they did not graduate
   
• Information
   
  • Public libraries
  • Advertising
  • Books and magazines
  • Big city newspapers
    • Yellow Journalism
      • Joseph Pulitzer tried to arouse readers and increase circulation with controversial stories about city life
      • William Randolph Hearst competed with Pulitzer in the 1890's in New York
      • Each paper tried to outdo the other with the climax coming in 1898 when both papers helped prod the U.S. into war with Spain
        • USS Maine
   
• Economy
   
  • Huge markets combined with large numbers of manufactured goods demanded changes
  • Department Stores
  • Chain Stores
  • Shopping Malls
   
• Leisure
   
  • Work, school, and leisure activities in the U.S. from 1894 to 1915 (films) - Library of Congress
     
  • Professional Sports
     
    • Baseball
       
      • National League formed in 1876
      • American League formed in 1901
      • Cincinnati Red Stockings were the first professional team in 1869
      • The Black Sox Trial - 1921
     
    

    

    • Boxing
       
      • Bare knuckled
      • John L. Sullivan won the heavyweight title in 1882 but lost to Gentleman Jim Corbett in 1892 when he was knocked out in the 21st round
     
    
  • Theater
    • Federal Theater Project - Library of Congress
     
  • Circus
    • Barnum and Bailey
    
     
  • Movies
    • Silent and at first very short
    • Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies - Libarary of Congress