Online Texts of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era


An Online version of Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives (1890)

Jacob Riis's photos at the Museum of the City of New York

William Crozier, Clarke Chambers, Patrick Costello, Chad Gaffield, Beverly Stadium's exhibit On the Lower East Side: Observations of Life in Lower Manhattan at the Turn of the Century (various dates)

Russell Herman Conwell, Acres of Diamonds

Frank Norris, The Pit, A Story of Chicago

Elbert Hubbard, A Message to Garcia (1899)

Mildred Ninde Botkin, Kansas Penitentiary (1913)

Inaugural Address of President Rutherford B. Hayes (1877)

Inaugural Address of President James Garfield (1881)

First Inaugural Address of President Grover Cleveland (1885)

Inaugural Address of President Benjamin Harrison (1889)

Second Inaugural Address of President Grover Cleveland (1893)

First Inaugural Address of President William McKinley (1897)

Second Inaugural Address of President William McKinley (1901)

Inaugural Address of President Theodore Roosevelt (1905)

Inaugural Address of President William H. Taft (1909)

First Inaugural Address of President Woodrow Wilson (1913)



Last modified: Thursday 1 May 1997