Industrialization

Logging in Minnesota
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/es/mn/logging_1

Reconstruction Acts of 1867
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/recon

The First Telephone Call
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/recon/telephone_1

Thomas Edison and the First Phonograph
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/recon/phongrph_1

Gilded Age
The growth of industry and a wave of immigrants marked this period in American history.
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/gilded

Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/west/westhome.html

Four Standard Time Zones for the Continental U.S. Were Introduced
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/gilded/timezone_1

First Public Demonstration of Edison's Light Bulb
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/gilded/edison_1

Good Housekeeping Magazine Debuts
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/gilded/ghouse_1

These life histories were compiled and transcribed
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html

Haymarket Affair
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ichihtml/hayhome.html

Emergence of Advertising in America
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/advertising/index.html

The Life of a City Early Films of New York
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/nychome.html

Tending the Commons: Folk life and Landscape in Southern West Virginia
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/tending/index.html