American History: A Survey 10/e   Alan Brinkley
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Chapter 18: The Age of the City

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American Variety Stage, 1870-1920

Scripts, sound recordings, and movies illustrate Vaudeville, and a special collection covers Harry Houdini.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/vshome.html

Ever the Twain Shall Meet

The full text of many of Mark Twain's writings, some of them specially converted to make them easy to read online.

http://www.lm.com/~joseph/mtwain.html

The Education of Henry Adams

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/HADAMS/ha_home.html

Complete text with a preface by Henry Cabot Lodge.

The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory

A detailed exhibit on the fire with contemporary texts and images. Fairly graphics- and bandwidth-intensive.

http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/index.html

The Red Badge of Courage

The complete text, with intriguing scholarly commentary.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/CRANE/title.html

Touring Turn-of-the-Century America, 1880-1920

Photographs of everything from Abandoned Buildings to Zoos. Quite a lot of ships.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/detroit/dethome.html

The Chicago Architecture Imagebase

http://www.uic.edu/depts/ahaa/imagebase/
Maps and photographs of Chicago buildings since the 19^th century.

Life in New York

http://mcny.org/

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.

The Happy Family

http://mcny.org/

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.

American Country Life

http://mcny.org/

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.

Urban Planning, 1794-1918: An International Anthology of Articles, Conference Papers, and Reports

http://www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/homepage.htm
Primary documents on city planning, from the United States and other English-speaking countries. Mostly from 1890-1915.

New York, NY, Ellis Island -- Immigration: 1900-1920

http://cmp1.ucr.edu/exhibitions/immigration_id.html
Photographs of immigrants arriving at Ellis Island.

San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Stereographs, 1906

http://www.olympus.net/personal/gofamily/quake/famous/1906.html

Images of damaged buildings and refugee camps.

Poems by Emily Dickinson

http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?type=simple&c=amverse&cc=amverse&sid=23c46910604f0414d50ba03517c15e2a&q1=dickinson&rgn=full+text
From the 1891 edition.

Henry James

http://www.newpaltz.edu:80/~hathaway/

Complete text of Daisy Miller.

tinfoil.com

http://www.tinfoil.com

Collection of early sound recordings, including both songs and speeches.

Origins of American Animation

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/oahtml/oahome.html

Early animated films from 1900-1921.

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