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| American Variety Stage, 1870-1920 | ||
| http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/vshome.html ( Scripts, sound recordings, and movies illustrate Vaudeville, and a special collection cov... ) | ||
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| Ever the Twain Shall Meet | ||
| http://www.lm.com/~joseph/mtwain.html ( The full text of many of Mark Twain's writings, some of them specially converted to make ... ) | ||
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| The Education of Henry Adams | ||
| Complete text with a preface by Henry Cabot Lodge. ( http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/HADAMS/ha_home.html ) | ||
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| The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory | ||
| http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/index.html ( A detailed exhibit on the fire with contemporary texts and images. Fairly graphics- and b... ) | ||
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| The Red Badge of Courage | ||
| http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/CRANE/title.html ( The complete text, with intriguing scholarly commentary. ) | ||
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| Touring Turn-of-the-Century America, 1880-1920 | ||
| http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/detroit/dethome.html ( Photographs of everything from Abandoned Buildings to Zoos. Quite a lot of ships. ) | ||
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| The Chicago Architecture Imagebase | ||
| Maps and photographs of Chicago buildings since the 19th century. ( http://www.uic.edu/depts/ahaa/imagebase/ ) | ||
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| Life in New York | ||
| Click on 'Contents' on the Museum of the City of New York Home Page, and search for 'Life in New York' to see Currier & Ives images of New York in the mid-19th century. ( http://www.mcny.org/Exhibitions/currierives/life.htm ) | ||
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| The Happy Family | ||
| Click on 'Contents' on the Museum of the City of New York Home Page, and search for 'The Happy Family' to see Currier & Ives images of speculation and printed advertisements. ( http://www.mcny.org/Exhibitions/currierives/happy1.htm ) | ||
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| American Country Life | ||
| Click on 'Contents' on the Museum of the City of New York Home Page, and search for 'American Country Life' to see nostalgic Currier & Ives views of rural life. ( http://www.mcny.org/Exhibitions/currierives/american.htm ) | ||
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| Urban Planning, 1794-1918: An International Anthology of Articles, Conference Papers, and... | ||
| Primary documents on city planning, from the United States and other English-speaking countries. Mostly from 1890-1915. ( http://www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/homepage.htm ) | ||
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| New York, NY, Ellis Island -- Immigration: 1900-1920 | ||
| Photographs of immigrants arriving at Ellis Island. ( http://cmp1.ucr.edu/exhibitions/immigration_id.html ) | ||
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| San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Stereographs, 1906 | ||
| Images of damaged buildings and refugee camps. ( http://www.olympus.net/personal/gofamily/quake/famous/1906.html ) | ||
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| Poems by Emily Dickinson | ||
| From the 1891 edition. ( http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?type=simple&c=amverse&cc=amverse&sid=23c4691... ) | ||
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| Henry James | ||
| Complete text of Daisy Miller. ( http://www.newpaltz.edu:80/~hathaway/ ) | ||
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| tinfoil.com | ||
| Collection of early sound recordings, including both songs and speeches. ( http://www.tinfoil.com ) | ||
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| Origins of American Animation | ||
| Early animated films from 1900-1921. ( http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/oahtml/oahome.html ) | ||
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