Illustrations

The Electric Tower at the Pan American Exposition , Buffal o xviii Mark Twain Dinin g at Demonico's 2 Abraham Lincol n 7 The Corliss Engine at the Centennial Exhibitio n 9 Thomas Alva Edison and Alexander Graham Bel l 1 6 & 1 7 The Last Spike of the First Transcontinental Railroa d 2 5 Waldorf Astori a Hote l 3 7 Titans o f Industry: Morgan, Rockefeller , an d Carnegi e 4 5 Arthur Curtis James House, New Yor k 5 9 The Huddled Masse s 7 5 Liberty Leading Immigrants b y Kenyon Cox 7 9 Inauguration o f the Statue o f Libert y 8 7 Hester Street 9 3 Eugene Debs 10 1

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The Secondary Railroa d Strik e of 189 4 I s Broken 12 9 Randolph Street , Chicago 13 7 Brooklyn Bridg e 14 1 Monadnock Block , Chicago 14 5 Jacob Rii s 14 7 English Coal Miner's Home, Lower East Side, New Yor k 15 3 Frances Benjamin Johnston 15 9 Administration Building , World's Columbian Exposition , Chicago 16 5 Marsden J. Perry House, Providence, Rhode Island 16 9 John Singe r Sargent 17 3 The William Kissa m Vanderbilt House , New Yor k 17 7 Dining Room i n the Anderson House, Washington, D.C. 18 1 The Prophets Elijah, Moses, Joshua b y John Singe r Sargent 18 7 Statue o f Minerva i n the Great Hall o f the Library o f Congress 19 1 Robert Gould Shaw Memorial b y Augustus Saint-Gaudens 19 5 Augustus Saint-Gaudens b y Kenyon Co x 19 7 Memorial to the Confederate Dead , Vicksburg, Mississippi 20 0 Cartoon o f Andrew Johnson a s Iago by Thomas Nast 20 7 Crowd Surgin g to the Public Galleries o f the Senate 21 3 Thomas Nast Cartoon o f Confederate Diehard s 21 7 Ulysses S . Grant 22 1 Horace Greele y 22 7 Lynching o f MacManus 23 9 Booker T. Washington 24 1 Cartoon o f Roscoe Conkling and Presidentia l Aspirants 24 5 Illustrations x i

Carl Schurz 25 3 Cartoon o f Grover Clevelan d 26 3 Cartoon o f Thomas B . Reed 26 9 Cowboys Coming to Town for Christmas b y Frederic Remington 28 3 Dakota Woos Uncle Sam 28 9 Sitting Bull 29 5 Buffalo Bil l 30 3 Annie Oakley and Calamit y Jane 30 9 A Kansas Farmer and His Family with Their Stea m Plow 31 5 Granger Poster 31 7 Mississippi Riverboa t 32 1 William Jennings Bryan and Ignatius Donnelly 33 1 Cartoon o f William McKinley 33 9 Dewey Triumphal Arch , New Yor k 35 1 Cartoon o f Theodore Roosevel t 35 5 Jane Addams 36 5 William McKinley's Party at His Second Inauguration 37 3 President's Day at the Pan American Exposition, Buffalo 37 9