When America was Great

When America was Great
The 1890's early 1900's the true pinnacle of America as a nation
The 1890's and early 1900's - until the advent of WWI was a period of exceptional economic expansion, and innovation, perhaps unparalleled .today. The American empire of trade was at its zenith, and cities were growing rapidly. While the same decade saw an explosion of immigration to the United States from less economically prosperous lands, it was a period of vast wealth. The railroads, the dominance of the United States in South American markets and the Caribbean meant that industries were doing very well.
Photos and Film Footage
photos
The Detroit Publishing Company Collection
The National Photo Company Collection
film footage
Edison Motion Pictures
curiosity of The Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/index.html
and Shorpy - History in High Definition
http://shorpy.com/
Music curiosity of
Digital History
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
The Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
University of California - Santa Barbara
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/index.php
Adoration Waltz
1900
The Peerless Orchestra
Sidewalks of New York
1894
Harry MacDonougle
The Streets of New York
1906
Billy Murray
In the Good Old Summertime
1902
Harry MacDonougle
By The Sea
1914
Ada Jones and Len Spencer
Oh, You Beautiful Doll
1911
Billy Murray
Coming Home from Coney Island
1906
Ada Jones and Len Spencer
Amoureuse
1902
The Peerless Orchestra
Conceived and Produced by
Dale Caruso

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Education

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• Gay
• Nineties
• Early
• 1900s
• New
• York
• City
• Nostalgia
• America
• Music

[Rosalizsolano]

@cassandrabadie lol well guess what all the white people are gone there is 98% hes-panic so what i mean by that is we took over =) in bayonne new jersey 07002

[1947Desoto]

@cassandrabadie I quote my storytelling teacher from my freshman year in college who grew up in the '30s and '40s. "Neither the '30s or now are better or worse, they're just different". I fully agree with him, because to be honest certain things may have changed for the better, but the amount of problems in society have not.

[ConeyIsland1911]

Please excuse my mistake in my prior comment I ment to say tenants instead of tenements.

[ConeyIsland1911]

Not all of these people were rich... In this video there are photos of Coney Island which was the "poor mans riviera" and New York tenements went there all the time. My point is that this video is not just a show case of what life was like for the white rich man.

[ZombifyIt]

wow Jessica Alba had a double in that era, the right girl at 6:07.. :D

[handal1973]

I want to live in America !

[TheOttodog1]

africans should go back to africa, tired of hearing them complain,

get lost ,

[MrChestypuller1775]

@mecormany ayy bro atleast your not in Africa or Cuba..

[celtichero9]

Interesting Video!

[kamashaki1]

Hopefully people in the future will not make a video of us today and title it "when America was great".

[cassandrabadie]

i would just like you to keep in mind that while some people were doing quite well it wasnt the same for all people, durning this time manypeople including women were not so blessed, lets try to remenber all of our history not just the good part , then i think we can grow as a nation and people lying serves no purpose