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487-493 -Draw conclusions from period advertisements about the U.S. -Describe the development of American cities in the late 19 th Century. Quiz:. New American Cities of the 1900s. What conclusions can we draw about life in American cities based on these advertisements?

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  1. 487-493-Draw conclusions from period advertisements about the U.S. -Describe the development of American cities in the late 19th Century.

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  3. New American Cities of the 1900s • What conclusions can we draw about life in American cities based on these advertisements? • Middle-class had disposable income to spend, so the economy was booming. • Focus on labor saving devices. • Ads catered to women • Consumer goods were pushed by new advertising. • Americans had more leisure time. • These goods acted as “economic multipliers”. • Life expectancy increased.

  4. New American Cities of the 1900s • New Cities • Theodore Dreiser called them “Giant Magnets”. • Urban population increased 9-fold 1860-1920. • By 1900 the industrial core of the U.S. was in the northeast between New York and Chicago. • Downtown urban centers grew. • Atlanta’s “Five Points District”. • Technological advances such as electric trolleys, lights, and elevated railways or “Els” helped bring this about.

  5. Easter Morning Traffic in New York, 1900

  6. State Street in Chicago (1909)

  7. The "Grocery Store" at the turn of the 20th Century – Wash., DC

  8. By 1900, most major cities had begun attempting a reorganization of their clogged transportation systems. Here, in 1897 Philadelphia, horse-drawn wagons and carriages competed with an electric trolley system and pedestrians on a cobblestone street.

  9. New Technology

  10. New American Cities of the 1900s • New Cities • Residential suburban neighborhoods developed. • Short Hills, NJ • Designs reflected Catherine Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book “American Woman’s Home” 1869. Stowe Beecher

  11. New American Cities of the 1900s • New Cities • A new middle-class developed and changed lifestyle trends. • Residence – subdivisions or row houses…Not apartments. • Consumption of goods changed.

  12. New American Cities of the 1900s • New Cities • A new middle-class developed changed lifestyle trends. • Department stores were created • Jordan Marsh • Lord & Taylor • Wanamaker & Brown • Marshall Field

  13. New American Cities of the 1900s • New Cities • A new middle-class developed changed lifestyle trends. • Leisure activities increased. • Football grew popular at Harvard and Yale. • Brookline Country Club golf. • Bicycles, parks and skating clubs. • Baseball.

  14. George Tilyous’s Steeplechase Park in Brooklyn’s Coney Island

  15. New American Cities of the 1900s • New Cities • A new middle-class developed changed lifestyle trends. • Leisure activities increased. • Entertainment via technology

  16. New American Cities of the 1900s • New Cities • A new middle-class developed changed lifestyle trends. • Leisure also included an interest in music/songs: • Josephine in my Flying Machine - 1910 • Bicycle Built for Two – 1893 • The Good Ole Summertime – 1902 • Casey Jones – 1909 • My Merry Oldsmobile – 1904 • Bill Bailey - 1902

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