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39. New Dimensions in Everyday Life

Schooling, sport and leisure, the place of women, Victorian values under strain, and the cheap print that reached everyone.

39. New Dimensions in Everyday Life

Courtesy the Bicycle Museum of America1892 Victor from the Overman Wheel Co. City life or country life? The typical farmer rose with the sun, tended the animal…

39a. Education

Aycock BirthplaceOak Plains School, in North Carolina, is typical of many schools built for white children in the late 19th century. It was in service until 19…

39b. Sports and Leisure

The Detroit NewsTy Cobb slides home at Detroit's Bennett Park where major league games were played before wooden stands. A sports craze was sweeping the nation…

39c. Women in the Gilded Age

Library of CongressArtist Charles Dana Gibson's representation of American womanhood at the turn of the century was so captivating that it seemed every woman w…

39d. Victorian Values in a New Age

After the Bath 1901 Pastel by Mary Cassatt Victorian values dominated American social life for much of the 19th century. The notion of separate spheres of l…

39e. The Print Revolution

The Poughkeepsie JournalThis detail of a mural in the foyer of the Poughkeepsie Journal, shows Ottmar Mergenthaler at his linotype machine surrounded by Morse…