Wyatt L.T. III The Industrial Revolution

New York City—Among the Poor—A Summer Evening at Five

Points. Courtesy of Library of Congress.

How street-cleaning authorities in New York City guard against

summer epidemics. Courtesy of Library of Congress.

First trip of Fulton’s steamboat to Albany, 1807. Courtesy of Library

of Congress.

Our Bicentennial—President Grant and Dom Pedro starting the Cor-

liss Engine at the Philadelphia Exposition. Courtesy of Library of

Congress.

Watt’s double-acting rotative steam engine, 1787–1800. Courtesy of

Library of Congress.

Cotton Gin, 1854. Courtesy of Library of Congress.

First locomotive to cross the Allegheny Mountains, ca. 1840—

people seated on cow catcher. Courtesy of Library of Congress.

The first telegraphic instrument. Courtesy of Library of Congress.

‘‘Substance and Shadow.’’ Punch Magazine cartoon, July 15, 1843.

The lower classes observing the upper class depicted on canvas.

Courtesy of Library of Congress.

‘‘The Meeting of the Ways’’: The old world giving way to the new

industrial age. Reproduction of color drawing by S. M. Arthurs, ca.

1830s. Courtesy of Library of Congress.

The experimental railway of John Stevens at Hoboken, 1825. Cour-

tesy of Library of Congress.

A Polish miner’s life. Courtesy of Library of Congress.

The great railroad strike of 1877. Courtesy of Library of Congress.

Spinning, reeling, warping, and weaving woolen cloth, ca. 1749.

Courtesy of Library of Congress.

New York City—‘‘Doing the Slums.’’ Courtesy of Library of Congress.