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This Is Who We Were: 1880–1899

Table of Contents

Essay: America, 1880–1899




Introduction




Section One: Profiles




Farmer and Community Leader in 1880




Telephone Company Executive in 1880




Educational Reformer and Teacher in Rural Wisconsin in 1881




Thirteen-Year-Old Orphan in 1882




Lawn Tennis Player in 1883




Railroad Construction Engineer in 1883




Chinese Immigrant Photographer's Assistant in 1884




Traveling Salesman and Entrepreneur in 1885




Shoe Lasting Machine Inventor in 1886




Cattle Rancher in 1888




Professional Baseball Player in 1888




New Teacher for the Dakota Sioux in 1888




Textile Mill Worker in 1890




Barbershop Quartet Member in 1891




West Point Graduate on the Frontier in 1891




Mining Company Owner in 1892




Sweet-Potato Farmer in 1892




Yale University Oarsman in 1893




Children's Aid Society Agent in 1894




Cash Register Inventor and Company Founder in 1895




Anti-Corset Campaigner in 1896




Salmon Cannery Cooperative Manager in 1896




Socially Prominent Bon Vivant in 1897




Housemaid in 1898




African American Wood Turner in 1898




Businessman in 1898




College Professor in 1898




Teenage Garment Industry Labor Organizer in 1898




Clarinetist in John Philip Sousa's Band in 1899




Section Two: Historical Snapshots




Early 1880s




Late 1880s/Early 1890s




Late 1890s




Section Three: Economy of the Times




Annual Income




Selected Prices




Value of a Dollar Index 1860–2014




Section Four: All Around Us—What We Saw, Wrote, Read & Listened To




All Around Us–1980–1899




Section Five: Census Data




State-by-State Comparative Tables: 1880, 1900 and 2010




Total Population




White Population




Black Population




American Indian/Alaska Native Population




Asian Population




Homeownership Rate




Eleventh Census of the United States: 1890 Population of the United States, Part I




Progress of the Nation: 1790 to 1890




Sex, General Nativity and Color




State or Territory of Birth




Country of Birth




Foreign Parentage




School, Militia and Voting Ages




Conjugal Condition




Dwellings and Families




Ages




School Attendance




Illiteracy




Can Not Speak English




Citizenship of Foreign Born Males 21 Years of Age and Over




Occupations




Bibliography