United States History 1900-1930

Pittsburgh Region

• Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904
  From the American Memory Project at Library of Congress

United States

• 1914-1918 Art of the First World War
  100 paintings from international collections to commemmorate the 80th anniversary of the end of the First World War.
• Across the Generations: Exploring US History Through Family Papers
  This is an online collection from the Smith College Libraries of the papers of the Bodmans, Dunhams, Garrisons, and Hales -- white, middle-class, traditional families -- whose experiences represent a portion of American society in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
• America 1900
  A PBS American Experience series documentary film about turn of the century United States
• American Memory Project
  From the Library of Congress
  • American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment 1870-1920
  • The Evolution of the American Conservation Movement 1850-1920
    documents the historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement to conserve and protect America's natural heritage
  • National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Collection 1848-1921
  • Photographs from the Chicago Daily News 1902-1933
• Child Labor in America 1908-1912
  Photographs by Lewis W. Hine from the History Place.
• How the Other Half Lives, Studies among the tenements of New York
  How the Other Half Lives together with its sequel "Battle with the Slum" reveal through Riis’s sensationalist prose and photography the appalling living conditions in the Lower East Side of turn-of-the-century New York City.
• PBS: Not for Ourselves Alone: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
  The companion website to the documentary on the woman suffragists. Includes writings, biographies, lesson plans.
• Smithsonian: Between A Rock and a Hard Place: a history of American Sweatshops from 1820 to the Present
  An exhibit that was put online covering information about the seamstress from 1820-1880, the tenement sweatshops from 1880-1940, and the resurgence of sweatshops from 1940-1997.
• Temperance and Prohibition
  An Ohio State University Project in American History.
• The Triangle Factory Fire, March 25, 1911
  "The fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York City, which claimed the lives of 146 young immigrant workers, is one of the worst disasters since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. This incidence has a great significance to this day because it highlighted the miserable working conditions to which unskilled industrial workers can be subjected." From the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
• U.C. Berkeley Library Suffragists Oral History Project
  Seven major figures in twentieth-century women's suffrage history are represented here with full-length oral histories.
• The Wright Brothers in Photographs Collection
  The Wright Brothers in Photographs Collection, is hosted by the History & Archival Collections database of the OhioLINK Digital Media Center (DMC). This collection of digital images from Wright State University Libraries' Wright Brothers Collection provides thorough coverage of the Wrights' early inventive period documenting their experimental gliders and flight testing in both North Carolina and Ohio. The content posted to date also provides a valuable record of their home life, camp life, and the flora and fauna of the Outer Banks 100 years ago.