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Social
History
The
Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans: As Told by Themselves
Hamilton Holt, ed. (New York: J. Pott & Co., 1906)
The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans
As Told By Themselves was originally published in 1906. It
collected interviews with a number of ordinary Americans such
as former slaves, immigrants, sweatshop workers, housewives, and
farmers wives. These articles were first published in Holt's 's
reformist newspaper The New York Independent during the
early 1900s.
The stories included here reflect the lives of
most of people who lived in this country at the turn of the last
century.
Contents
Resources:
- Worklore:
Brooklyn Workers Speak, a joint research/exhibition
project of The Brooklyn Historical Society and the Brooklyn
Public Library, explores the work lives of Brooklynites as they
made, and continue to make, their living in the borough. Using
photographs and personal quotes, this online exhibition compares
the experience of working in the past to doing so today.
http://www.worklore.net/game-launch.html
- Triangle
Factory Fire
This web exhibit presents original documents and secondary sources
on the Triangle Fire, held by the Cornell University Library.
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/
![[Man (boss) waiving his fist at female employee in a sweatshop (clothing factory)] Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, (1888 Nov. 3), p. 188. Library of Congress](sweatshop_cropped.jpg) |
| Man
(boss) waiving his fist at female employee in a sweatshop
(clothing factory)
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper,
(1888 Nov. 3), p. 188. Library
of Congress
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