https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z Made with magic en-us 2019-02-26 14:46:34 UTC 2024-05-25 15:24:43 UTC hello@padlet.com 20tometichm https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/335390258 Without an effective sanitation and waste system, "kitchen slops, cinders, coal dust, horse manure, broken cobblestones and dumped merchandise were piled high on the sidewalks." 

]]> 2019-02-26 14:56:06 UTC https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/335390258 20klinel https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/335392163 Shoe making was a common craft in the Gilded Age. 1896, Jacob Riis]]> 2019-02-26 14:58:55 UTC https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/335392163 20klinel https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/335393242 1892, Jacob Riis]]> 2019-02-26 15:00:38 UTC https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/335393242 20tometichm https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/335393276 Pittsburg had 14,000 chimneys between residents and iron and steel plants, and the product was described as an atmosphere "worthy of Satan himself."]]> 2019-02-26 15:00:41 UTC https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/335393276 20klinel https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/335395771 Rivington St, New York City, 1888, Jacob Riis]]> 2019-02-26 15:04:17 UTC https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/335395771 20tometichm https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/335396186 In 1900, Pittsburgh residents spent $1,500,000 on laundry work. Despite high expenses, "clean collars quickly acquired a thin layer of soot, and the bituminous coal dust gave clothes... a permanent yellow tinge."]]> 2019-02-26 15:04:49 UTC https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/335396186 20klinel https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/335397025 Three boys walking near an elephant from the Barnes Circus which is walking down the middle of Atlantic St. near Nevins, Wallace G. Levison]]> 2019-02-26 15:05:58 UTC https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/335397025 20tometichm https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/335400265 Between 1868 and 1875, around 500,000 people resided in the slums of New York, where as many as eight people would share a few rooms that were roughly 10 square feet. One building on the Lower East Side held 101 adults and 91 children.]]> 2019-02-26 15:10:40 UTC https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/335400265 https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/335598962 In New York in 1900, the total population was 3.4 million, and grew to 5.6 million by 1920. Chicago’s population went from 1.6 million to 2.7 million in the same timeframe, making the populations of cities much denser.]]> 2019-02-26 19:32:12 UTC https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/335598962 20tometichm https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/335904988 Even though the living conditions of the poor included "slop oozing down stairwells," the rent per square foot was 25-35% higher in the slums than the fancier apartments of uptown New York for the wealthy.]]> 2019-02-27 14:40:03 UTC https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/335904988 https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/335916760 Until 1909, New York City had the world’s tallest building: the Singer Building at over 600 ft. The city then topped itself with the next tallest building; the Metropolitan Life Tower was 700 ft tall.]]> 2019-02-27 14:56:49 UTC https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/335916760 20klinel https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/335923559 A crowd stands outside the Indiana Building at the Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893]]> 2019-02-27 15:06:14 UTC https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/335923559 20tometichm https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/335927988 In New York City in the 1870s, the number of homeless children ranged from 20,000 to 30,000, making up 12% of school-aged children. In 1900, only 6 out of 10 New York City school-aged children were enrolled in school. That same year, 18% of American workers were under the age of 16.]]> 2019-02-27 15:12:30 UTC https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/335927988 20klinel https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/335930868 12-years-old. Can't read. Doesn't know his A,B,C's. Said, "Yes I want to learn but can't when I work all the time." Lewis W. Hine]]> 2019-02-27 15:16:33 UTC https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/335930868 20klinel https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/335932646 A small newsie downtown on a Saturday afternoon. St. Louis, Missouri. Lewis W. Hine]]> 2019-02-27 15:19:09 UTC https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/335932646 20tometichm https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/335933337 Tuberculosis was the single leading cause of death in New York throughout the 1900s. From 1881 to 1895, an average of more than 5,000 New Yorkers died of the disease annually. Other diseases rampant in the city were smallpox, typhoid, malaria, yellow fever, cholera, and tuberculosis. Typhoid in particular killed more than 5,000 people in the 1860s.]]> 2019-02-27 15:20:11 UTC https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/335933337 20klinel https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/335934285 The city of New York, 1879, Williams, J. W.]]> 2019-02-27 15:21:32 UTC https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/335934285 20klinel https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/335950489 1911]]> 2019-02-27 15:45:08 UTC https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/335950489 20klinel https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/335953819 1888, Jacob Riis]]> 2019-02-27 15:50:12 UTC https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/335953819 https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/336031830 Poor regulation and high winds would often cause devastating fires that ravaged the densely packed cities. For example, the Great Chicago Fire in 1871 killed 300 people and cost upwards of $200 million in damages. Another infamous fire was the one at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, a sweatshop in New York City, where a total of 146 people were killed from burning alive, suffocating on smoke, being stuck in elevator shafts, and jumping to sidewalks when trapped due to a lack of proper escape routes.]]> 2019-02-27 17:35:05 UTC https://padlet.com/20klinel/bgbe4961oi1z/wish/336031830