The “Terrible Seventies”
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Now Playing: Rusty York & the Kentucky Mountain Boys, “Over the Hill to the Poor House,” 1961 (original, 1874)
Golden Spike Ceremony, Promontory Summit, Utah, May 10, 1869
Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, 1876
Opening Day at the Exposition, May 1876
Corliss steam engine in Machinery Hall
Viewing the fair grounds from the Liberty Torch
Exposition visitors picnic in front of the Main Building
Missouri River Bridge under construction, 1873
Visitors marvel at a tower of Leviathan Paper
Exposition guidebook
Cartoonist Thomas Nast, “Panic on Wall Street,” 1876
William Beard, “Bulls and Bears in the Market,” 1879
Chicago Labor Riot, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated, August 1877
“The First Blow at the Chinese Question,” WASP (San Francisco), 1877
Ruins after Railroad Riots in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 1877