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The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans: As Told by Themselves
Hamilton Holt, ed. (New York: J. Pott & Co., 1906)

Please note: Digital History does not hold the copyright on this work. We believe that the copyright has expired since it was published in 1906 and we can find no evidence that it has been renewed. It has been reprinted but the body of work has not been altered.The California Digital Library has listed it as "not in copyright." See http://archive.org/details/lifestoriesundis00holtrich for more information. You can download the complete book in a variety of formats from that website.

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.

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Resources:

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