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The 1890s (pronounced "eighteen-nineties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1890, and ended on December 31, 1899. In American popular culture, the decade would later be nostalgically referred to as the "gay nineties" ("gay" meaning carefree or cheerful). In the British Empire, the 1890s epitomised the late ...
Original Cover of 1890 edition Bandits' Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street (1888). How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (1890) is an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s.
May 3 – James B. Beck, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1877 to 1890 (born 1822 in Scotland) May 15 – Edward Doane, Protestant missionary in Micronesia (born 1820) June 11 George Edward Brett, publisher (born 1829) Hugh Buchanan, politician from Georgia (born 1823) June 30 – Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer (born 1819)
1890. This image depicts the rugged beauty of Wasp Island, part of the San Juan Islands chain off the coast of Washington. The photo was taken by Arthur Churchill Warner, who worked for John Muir ...
Pages in category "1890s photographs" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Progressive Era (1890s–1920s) Garza Revolution in Texas and Mexico (1891–1893) Births. January–June. January 1 – Charles Bickford, actor (died 1967)
Coal was originally used in America in the 1300s by the Hopi Indians as a way to cook their food, warm themselves and fire their clay. Coal did not resurface in the United States until 1673.
The Gay Nineties is an American nostalgic term and a periodization of the history of the United States referring to the decade of the 1890s.It is known in the United Kingdom as the Naughty Nineties, and refers there to the decade of supposedly decadent art of Aubrey Beardsley, the witty plays and trial of Oscar Wilde, society scandals and the beginning of the suffragette movement.