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Completion of first transcontinental railroad, Promontory
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Advertisement for the Missouri Pacific Railroad |
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Advertisement for the “Gifts” of the Grangers
poster |
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Thomas Edison |
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Thomas Edison in his Menlo Park, N.J. laboratory |
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Advertisement for a 1901 phonograph |
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First practical gasoline automobile |
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First Oldsmobile, 1897 |
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First successful powered Wright Brothers flight, 1903 |
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Andrew Carnegie |
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John D. Rockefeller |
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Oil field derricks, western Pennsylvania, 1860’s |
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Spindletop Oil field, Beaumont, Texas, 1903 |
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Jay Gould |
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Collis P. Huntington, railroad entrepreneur |
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J.P. Morgan |
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Extravagant party |
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Antitrust |
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Eight hour workday |
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Breaker boys in a coal mine, 1900 |
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Coal mining, 1895 |
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West Virginia coal mine |
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The Great Railroad strike, 1877, Baltimore |
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Drawing of workers dragging fireman and engineer from
a train in West Virginia, 1877 |
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Terrence V. Powderly of the Knights of Labor |
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Women delegates, Knights of Labor convention, 1886 |
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Samuel Gompers, American Federation of Labor |
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Carnegie steel mill, Homestead, Pennsylvania |
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Pennsylvania Militia at Carnegie’s Homestead Steel
Mill, 1892 |
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Coxey’s Army marching toward Washington, D.C. |
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William Jennings Bryan |
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William Jennings Bryan |
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National Republican Convention in 1896, Saint Louis |
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William McKinley at home in Canton, Ohio |
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Critique of William Jennings Bryan |
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“The New Hub of the Universe”; depiction of
McKinley as president |
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William McKinley |
