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The Victorian Era was a time of the Industrial Revolution, with authors Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin, the railway and shipping booms, profound scientific discoveries, and the invention of ...
In the years before the American Civil War, entertainment existed on a different scale. Similar variety theatre existed before 1860 in Europe and elsewhere. In the US, as early as the first decades of the 19th century, theatergoers could enjoy a performance consisting of Shakespeare plays, acrobatics, singing, dancing, and comedy.
American Vaudeville began in the early 1880s, at the end of Reconstruction, and ended with the rise of talking cinema and the Great Depression in the early 1930s. [ 3 ] [ 1 ] Vaudeville's popularity first started in Northeastern states, then quickly spreading West until there was a centralized American Vaudeville circuit in the 1890s. [ 2 ]
The Great Depression affected theatre audiences on both sides of the Atlantic, as people had little money to spend on entertainment. Only a few stage shows exceeded a run on Broadway or in London of 500 performances during the decade. Many shows continued the lighthearted song-and-dance style of their 1920s predecessors.
A woman and family doing laundry in 1900. Emma Griffin began her working life doing other people's laundry for $1.00-$1.50 per week. The sisters were born in Louisville, Kentucky, Emma in 1874, and Mabel in 1877. Their mother, Blandina Montgomery Duncan, was a laundress who sometimes lived in other people's homes, their father Henry a laborer.
Several train crashes, all occurring between 1890 and 1903, occur throughout the country, inspiring several early country music recordings. These include the wreck of the C&O in 1890 ("Engine 143" by the Carter Family), train 382 near Vaughn, Mississippi (which inspired "Casey Jones") and train 97 near Danville, Virginia (bearing "Wreck of the Old 97").
These comics stood in front of the curtain during their shows, like early 20th century "front cloth" stand-up comics in Britain and Ireland whose numbers allowed the stage behind them to be re-set for another act. Aside from American and British versions in the early 1900s, other nations did not establish comedy scenes until decades later.
One of his lesser known projects consisted of documenting immigrants coming through Ellis island. In 1901 Hine was a teacher at the Ethical Culture School in New York City.