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5 days ago · The 1880 United States House of Representatives elections were held for the most part on November 2, 1880, with five states holding theirs early between June and October. They coincided with the 1880 presidential election which was won by James A. Garfield, who was a member of the House at the time. Elections were held for 293 seats of the ...
4 days ago · Gilded Age mansions were lavish houses built between 1870 and the early 20th century by some of the richest people in the United States. These estates were raised by the nation's industrial, financial and commercial elite, who amassed great fortunes in era of expansion of the tobacco, railroad, steel, and oil industries coinciding with a lack ...
23 hours ago · Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience.
6 days ago · Articles have been scanned as PDFs and include images and advertisements, and are full text searchable. Nineteenth Century Collections Online (Gale) This link opens in a new window Nineteenth Century Collections Online is a multi-year global digitization and publishing program focusing on primary source collections of the nineteenth century ...
- Katy Boss
- 2009
May 14, 2024 · Railroad wages by country, 1886-1889. Shows the average wages per annum for 8 railroad occupations in four different countries. Wages for the UK and the US (as well as New England) are from 1889. Wages for Prussia and Germany span from `886-1887. Source: 23 A.R. Board of Railroad Commissioners, pg. 81.
- Marie Concannon
- 2012
May 16, 2024 · From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. Wikimedia Commons. a collection of 105,631,359 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute. Images. Sounds. Videos. Upload. Picture of the day.
May 13, 2024 · Building stones of the United States, and statistics of the quarry industry for 1880. Gov Info Census C 3/a. 10/ 5: 10 (reprint) (Note: pages 713 and 795-812 missing from edition on Census website) From the Census Bureau. Report on the mortality and vital statistics of the United States as returned at the tenth census (June 1, 1880)
