Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-5535 Annotation: Suffrage Movement Leaders Year: 1870

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-122653 Annotation: Homeless poor in the slums of New York. Year: 1872

Credit: The New York Public Library Media type: engraving Museum Number: Annotation: Colored National Convention. Their purpose was “to inquire into the actual condition” of blacks in America. Year: 1876

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-75193 Annotation: Heat wave in New York Year: 1882

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-75197 Annotation: This engraving shows the crowded conditions the poor endured living in a tenement in New York City. Year: 1883

Credit: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, published by Webster & Company. Media type: engraving Museum Number: Annotation: Artist Edward W Kemble illustrated the original edition of Mark Twain’s classic book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Year: 1884

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZC4-4590 Annotation: The drudgery of using a tub and washboard to wash clothes is eliminated with the advent of the “latest technology”—the home washing machine and wringer. Year: 1869

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-74994 Annotation: This engraving by Thomas Nast was published in Harper’s Weekly. It cautions against the Free Love movement promoted by Victoria Woodhull, who was also an advocate for women’s rights. The Free Love movement rejected marriage. Woodhull is seen carrying a sign that reads: “Be Saved by Free Love,”…

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-79589 Annotation: From the latter 1800’s to the turn of the twentieth century, the rise of Robber Barons and Monopolies, and “The Gospel of Wealth” espoused by extravagantly wealthy men like Andrew Carnegie and John Rockefeller marked the rise of American capitalism and a dramatic decrease in the small independently…

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-2235 Annotation: In 1869, The Wyoming territory became the first section of the United States to extend suffrage to women since New Jersey rescinded laws allowing women to vote in 1807 (which had been in place since 1776). Wyoming’s decision was shortly followed by legislature passed in the Utah Territory…