Looking at Economic Aspects of the Gilded Age Title: Pullman: A Street in Pullman;
Title
Date: 1885
The Coal Miner at Work
Source: Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, v. 70, no. 417
Date
1867
Source
Harper's Weekly
Looking at Economic Aspects of the Gilded Age Title
The Levee at St. Louis, Missouri
Date
1871
Source
Lower East Side, New York 1901 from the National Archives
Harper's Weekly
Looking at Economic Aspects of the Gilded Age Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, BOSS WAIVING HIS FIST AT FEMALE EMPLOYEE IN A SWEATSHOP (1888) Library of Congress
Source | Isaac Aaronovitch Hourwich,
Immigration and Labor: The Economic
Aspects of European Immigration to the
United States (New York: G.P. Putnam’s
Sons, 1912), 87.
Creator | Isaac Aaronovitch Hourwich
Item Type | Quantitative Data
Cite This document | Isaac Aaronovitch
Hourwich, "Graph of Immigration and
Business Conditions, 1880-1910," in
HERB by ASHP, Item #1861,
http://herb.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/1861
(accessed August 17, 2011).
Looking at Economic Aspects of the Gilded Age In the 19th century, Asian Americans faced widespread hostility. In this 1898 flyer, the labor movement
claimed that Asian-American workers "[lowered] standards of living and of morals." Particularly in the
West, union organizers agitated for the exclusion of Chinese and Japanese workers, who provided a
source of cheap labor in the fields of mining, railroad construction, and agriculture. Groups like the Silver
Bow Trade and Labor Assembly and Butte (Montana) Miners' Union organized boycotts against AsianAmerican businesses, and frequently resorted to racist rhetoric.
Source | "Flyers distributed by the Silver Bow Trades and Labor Assembly and Butte Miners' Union in support of Chinese and
Japanese boycott, ca. 08/1898," National Archives, Teaching With Documents: Affidavit and Flyers from the Chinese Boycott Case,
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/chinese-boycott/
Creator | Silver Bow Trades and Labor Assembly and Butte Miners' Union
Item Type | Pamphlet
Cite This document | Silver Bow Trades and Labor Assembly and Butte Miners' Union, "A Montana Miner's Union Boycotts AsianOwned Businesses," in HERB by ASHP, Item #1153, http://herb.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/1153 (accessed August 17, 2011).
Looking at Economic Aspects of the Gilded Age The millionaire industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie represented the conflicting roles played
by the late nineteenth-century's "captains of industry." One of the era's most generous philanthropists,
Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth held that the rich had a duty to contribute to the welfare of society; he
accordingly set up a trust fund that led to the creation of over 3,000 libraries and other institutions. On the
other hand, his Carnegie Steel Company also lowered wages to increase profit, as it did in 1892, resulting
in a strike and subsequent violence after the company employed strikebreakers.
Source | "Forty-Millionaire Carnegie in his Great Double Role," The Saturday Globe, 9 July 1892; from David P. Demarest, ed. "The
River Ran Red": Homestead 1892 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992), 189.
Creator | Unknown
Item Type | Cartoon
Cite This document | Unknown, "Andrew Carnegie Plays a Double Role," in HERB by ASHP, Item #636,
http://herb.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/636 (accessed August 17, 2011).