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American Country Life
http://mcny.org/american.htm
Nostalgic Currier & Ives views of rural life.
American Variety Stage, 1870-1920
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/vshome.html
Scripts, sound recordings, and movies illustrate Vaudeville, and a special collection covers Harry Houdini.
Ever the Twain Shall Meet
http://www.lm.com/~joseph/mtwain.html
The full text of many of Mark Twain's wrtings, some of them specially converted to make them easy to read on-line.
Henry James
http://www.newpaltz.edu:80/~hathaway/
The complete text of Daisy Miller
Life in New York
http://mcny.org/life.htm
Currier & Ives images of New York in the mid-nineteenth century.
New York, NY, Ellis Island --Immigration: 1900-1920
http://cmp1.ucr.edu/exhibitions/immigration_id.html
Photographs of immigrants arriving at Ellis Island.
Poems by Emily Dickinson
http://www.hti.umich.edu/bin/amv-idx.pl?type=header&id=DickiPoems
From the 1891 edition.
1906 San Francisco Earthquake
http://www.olympus.net/personal/gofamily/quake/famous/1906.html
Images of damaged buildings and refugee camps.
The Chicago Architecture Imagebase
http://www.uic.edu/depts/ahaa/imagebase/
Maps and photographs of Chicago buildings since the nineteenth century.
The Education of Henry Adams
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/HADAMS/ha_home.html
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 bandwidth-intensive.
The Happy Family
http://www.netresource.com/mcny/happy.html
Currier & Ives images of speculation and printed advertisements.
The Red Badge of Courage
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/CRANE/title.html
The complete text, with intriguing scholarly commentary.
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.
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.
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