Images of Twentieth-Century U.S. History

For the use of History 11 students and teachers at St. Stephen's Episcopal School

 

Fin de siècle

Rough Riders on San Juan Hill***Battleship Maine***Digging the Panama Canal***Blasting the Canal***Timeline of U.S. Intervention in Latin American***Map of U.S. Interests in Carib.***Immigrants Arriving at Ellis Island, 1900***U.S. Population and Cities, 1880***Map, U.S. Pop. and Cities, 1920***

Progressive Era

***"Now Why Didn't I Think of That!" (TR's reaction to WW's in-person State of Union address, 1913)***WW Primes Economic Pump (cart., 1914)***Woodrow Wilson***Elecoral College Results, 1912***Theodore Roosevelt***TR Faces the Trusts (cart.)***Triange Fire Victims***"Sweatshop" photo by Hine, c. 1910***Triangle Fire, gen'l view (1911)***Triangle Fire Newsheadlines***George Bellows, Men of the Docks(1912)***Women's Suffrage Postcard***Stanton/Antony Portrait***Lewis Hine, Cotton Pickers (Aged 5-9), Bells, TX, 1913***Picture of Crowded NYC Street, 1903***Wright Brothers First Flight, 1903***Auto Assembly Line, Detroit 1913***Model-T***Lafollette Giving Speech***Taft Giving Speech***

World War I

Map of Europe in 1914***"Hunger breeds madness, Woodrow Wilson. America's Food must save the world.". (NWDNS-4-P-114) ***The "Big Four" at Versailles, 1918***Victory Parade for 369th Regiment, NYC 1919***Ruins of Ypres, Belgium, 1917***Field Ruins, Europe 1917***British in Muddy Trench***200-ton Howitzer***British Prepare to Attack***Women Riveters, WA 1919***Wilson Reviewing Troops in Europe, 1919***Depiction of Great Migration, ptg. by Jacob Lawrence***Jacob Lawrence, "Lynching"***

 

The 1920's

Marcus Garvey***Bathing suit advert**20's Bathroom Advert***Nat'l Thrift Director w/ Hand Grenade Piggy-Banks**Radicalism as "Fungus" (cart. 1919)***"Too Slow for Me," cart. lampooning Bolsh.***"Keep to the Old Channel," cart. advocating isolationism, 1919***Kellogg's Cereal adver.***"That's the Stuff," Prohibition cart.***Negro saved at Chicago Race Riot, 1919***"If You Were a Surgeon," adver. for cigars***Buck's Porcelain Enamel Oven, 1920***1922 Clothes Washer***Scopes' Trial, photo of Darrow and Bryan***Protest Booth of Anti-Evolution Leauge at Scopes' Trial***Political Cart.s from Scopes' Trial***Photo of Herbert Hoover and Amelia Earhardt, 1931***Typical "Flapper" from 20s***Phonograph (1949), examined by Iowa farmer at auction***Listening to the Phonograph, Illinois, 1940***

The Great Depression

E. Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942***Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother (18yr.-old Okie in CA)***Lange, Refugee Camp near Holtville (?)***Ben Shahn, Cotton Pickers in Arkansas***Shahn, Family of Sharecroppers***Arthur Rothstein, Sharecropper children in school, Alabama, 1937***Lange, "Migrant Mother," aged 32 and wife of destitute CA pea farmer***Lange, "Children in a Democracy," photo of migrant family in Amarillo, TX, 1940***Dust Storm Approaching, Kansas***Abandoned House in Dust-Bowl Kansas, 1941***"Years of Dust," poster for Resettlment Administration***Map of TVA Projects***Hydroelectric generators, Pickwick Dam, TVA***Photo of Southeast Louisiana Rural Co-op, project of Rural Electrification Administration (REA)***Bonus Army Fights Police, July 1932***WPA poster***Photo of artist sketching workers at WPA site, 1939***WPA Quilting Project, Nashville, TN 1939***Civilian Conservation Corps poster***Nat'l Youth Admin. painting, by Kansan W. Krider, 1936***Police Guard outside closed NYC bank, 1931***NRA Poster***"Bread Line" in San Antonio***"Yes, You remember me," cart. depicting FDR/Labor Alliance***cart.lampoons FDR's Court-packing plan***Family Migrating West, w/broken truck***Free soup and Coffee (note middle-class poor)***

World War II

U.S.S. Shaw Explodes, Pearl Harbor, 12/7/01***U.S. Troops Invading Normandy, June 6, 1944***Burial at Sea for Men of U.S.S. Intrepid***Concentration Camp Victims***Buchenwald EmaciatedPrisoners, 1945***Buchenwald Victims, Loaded in Truck for Burial***Buchenwald Ovens***Jewish Wedding Rings, recovered from concentration camp, 1945***"Longing Won't Bring Him Back Sooner: Get a War Job," poster***"Our's to Fight For: Freedom From Fear," WWII poster by Rockwell***"Our's To Fight For: Freedom to Worship," WWII poster by Rockwell***"Warning: Our Homes Are in Danger," prop. poster***Hitler and Mussolini in Munich, 1938***Austrian Parliament Salutes "Invited" Hitler***Sudeten Woman Salutes Hitler , with Tears in Eyes***View of St. Paul's Cathedral During Battle of Britain***U.S. "Strangled" by Isolationism, cart.***Japanese-AmericanBoarding Bus for Relocation***U.S. Infantry in Germany, March 1945***Women Workers in U.S. plant***Yalta Conference, 1945***MacArthur Wading Ashore at Leyte Gulf***

The 50's and the Cold War

Map of Occupied Germany, 1945***Private Fallout Shelter, Akron, OH***John Foster Dulles***Map of Korean War, 1950***Khrushchev and Castro Embrace at UN, 1960***Aerial View of Cuban Missile Site***Brandenburg Gate from West, as GDR begins Wall***Building the Berlin Wall, 1961***Couple Looking Over Berlin Wall***"Cape Cod" style home, built by William Levitt, c. 1948***Actual Levittown Street, 1958***Levittown, Aerial View***Levittown Cub Scout Troop***Berlin Airlift***Hula-Hoop Derby, EntertainmeInternet Explorer nt in the 50's***Billy Graham Crusade***Cadillac

The 60's

JFK and John, Jr. in Newport, RI, Sept. 63***LBJ Takes Oath of Office***U.S. Casualty with Friends, Awaiting Airlift in Vietman, 1966***Vietnam Protestor offers flower to Military Police, Arlington, VA, 1967***MLK and LBJ at White House, 1966***Sit-in At Woolworth's***Police Dogs Attack Blacks***MLK at March on Washington***LBJ Listens to Tape from Son-in-Law Charles Robb, Marine Commander in Viet., March 68***The Man on the Moon***Photo of Earth from Apollo VIII, December 68***Bodyguards for Elijah Muhammad (Nation of Islam), Chicago speech, 1974***Malcolm X***Poster w/Uncle Sam: "Can You Pass the Acid Test?"***

The 70's

Nixon Finally Departs Washington, Consoled by Ford***Elvis (w/ family photos and awarded law enforcement badges) Visits Nixon, 1970***Betty Friedan***

The 80's

Spaceshuttle Challenger on a 1983 Mission***Photo of Reagan, 1982***Oliver North at Congressional Hearing, 1988***

The 90's

Clinton plays Saxophone, a Gift from Yeltsin***