商品簡介
Based on material from the Working Americans series and drawing on government surveys, social worker histories, economic data, family diaries, letters, newspapers, and magazine articles, this volume documents the daily life of people in the US from 1880-1899. It contains 29 profiles of everyday people and families from the period, including their home, work, and community lives; a list of key events, such as President Garfield's assassination, Susan B. Anthony's Congress for Women's Rights in Washington, DC, and the end of the Spanish-American War; economic data, including food, clothing, transportation, housing, and other costs, advertisements for products and services, and figures for annual income and prices, as well as comparison of the value of a dollar for every year between 1860 and 2014; reprints of newspaper and magazine articles, letters, posters, and other items; and data from the 1880, 1900, and 2010 Censuses, with comparative tables on total population, the population of specific ethnicities, and homeownership rates, and a reprinted 1890 Census. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
