Resources
American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library (Library of Congress)- The Library of Congress' web site devoted to presenting its ever-growing collection of digital records to the public. Users can search for materials by key word, time period, and by media type (i.e., photos and prints, documents, motion pictures, maps, and sound recordings).
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
Prints Old & Rare: Thomas Nast
(Prints Old & Rare)-Contains a small selection of Nast's political
cartoons, including a few that focus on Tamany Hall.
http://www.printsoldandrare.com/thomasnast/
http://cprr.org/Museum/index.html
Immigrant and Ethnic America (HarpWeek, LLC)-Includes political cartoons by Thomas Nast and articles that appeared in Harper's Weekly. Topics include: culture; labor; anti-Chinese movement; politics; China and the world; ethnic comparisons; and
immigration in different regions of the United States.
http://immigrants.harpweek.com/
CHILD LABOR (The History Place)- An archive of photographs by Lewis W. Hine dealing exclusively with child labor.
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html
Websites for the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (Robert W. Cherny, San Francisco State University)- An organized collection of links which include: primary source materials, photographs, and other Internet-based reference resources. Organized by topic and theme (within the general era of 1865-1915).
http://bss.sfsu.edu/cherny/gapesites.htm
The Gilded Age and the Politics of Corruption (University of Wisconsin)- A review outline of lectures from a 102-level introductory history course at the University of Wisconsin. This is lecture #4 and begins the 5 part series on the Gilded Age. These serve as excellent review materials (with photos, primary sources, etc.) as well as brief overviews of many topics (e.g., biographies of Gilded Age business leaders).
http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/lectures/lecture04.html
The American Experience: Andrew Carnegie (PBS)- A web site about Andrew Carnegie, including: his life, a timeline, actions, successes, philanthropy, etc.