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	MoMA.org \| Exhibitions \| 1997 \| Paris - The 1890s
		The 1890s in Paris, forever popularized as the time of the can-can and cabaret, was a period of unparalleled printmaking activity.
		This exhibition of approximately 200 works, drawn from the Museum's collection and augmented with loans from New York collections, focuses on the private and public aspects of printmaking during this pivotal stage in the history of the modern print.
		Prints were created as objects of private contemplation for the homes of a new generation of bourgeois collectors, but they also appeared in new venues throughout the public arena.
	www.moma.org /exhibitions/1997/paris1890s (459 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for 1890s
		It was adopted by Britain in 1821, by France, Germany and the USA in the 1870s, and by most of the rest of the world by the 1890s.
		A nomad of the 1890s: a comprehensive restrospective only serves to prove that Charles Conder's best work was produced in his six Australian years.
		Japanese economic activities in Sabah from the 1890s until 1941.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=1890s&StartAt=71 (997 words)

	1890s in fashion at AllExperts
		Fashionable women's clothing styles shed some of the extravagances of previous decades (so that skirts were neither crinolined as in the 1850s, nor protrudingly bustled in back as in the late 1860s and mid-1880s, nor tight as in the late 1870s), but corseting continued unmitigated, or even slightly increased in severity.
		Early 1890s dresses consisted of a tight bodice with the skirt gathered at the waist and falling more naturally over the hips and undergarments than in previous years.
		The 1890s in both Europe and saw growing acceptance of artistic or aesthetic dress as mainstream fashion, especially in the adoption of the uncorseted tea gown for at-home wear.
	en.allexperts.com /e/0/1890s_in_fashion.htm (1258 words)

	Hard Drive to the Klondike: Promoting Seattle During the Gold Rush (Chapter 1)
		The anxious tone of the early 1890s was further reflected in Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis.
		Turner's thesis touched a nerve in the 1890s, as the forces that he claimed had shaped the American character seemed to be fast disappearing.
		The dispirited tone of the 1890s appeared in a variety of forums, including popular journals, which summarized the "mood of the age" as one of "pessimism." [55] As The Seattle Daily Times explained in 1897, "the great majority of the American people...
	www.nps.gov /klse/hrs/hrs1b.htm (1271 words)

	1890s - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s
		The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the "Gay Nineties", under the then-current usage of the word "gay" which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no connotation of homosexuality as in current-day usage.
		Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius and US geologist Thomas Crowder Chamberlain independently come to the conclusion that burning fossil fuels might cause global warming due to carbon dioxide emissions
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/1890s (133 words)

	Chicago in the 1890s
		The 1890s were an extraordinary decade for Chicago, perhaps the only period in the city's history when its status as a "world city" would be disputed by few.
		In the 1890s alone its population increased by 600,000.
		Transportation was inevitably a problem in the newly gigantic city, but the adoption of "electric traction" in the 1890s eased the strain.
	www.lib.uchicago.edu /e/su/maps/chi1890 (1117 words)

	Amazon.com: The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s: Books: H. W. Brands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The decade of the 1890s is quite compelling; it represents the high flowering of an older, quaint America together with social, political, and intellectual trends that would move the nation rapidly into the modernity familiar to us today.
		During the 1890's people felt under stress from industrialization, economic centralization and also from the severe depression the country was going through.
		Those of the 1890's feared the change of the lives of the farmers with industrialization, while those of the 1990's feared a "ubiquitous, iniquitous liberalism." These comparisons are offered in the introduction, but not given directly in the book.
	www.amazon.com /Reckless-Decade-America-1890s/dp/0312135947 (2018 words)

	Decade in a Box: 1890s quiz -- free game
		In the 1890s, there were only two Championship Series (later World Series) during the decade.
		Throughout the 1890s, there were 13 teams that played in the National League at some time.
		The worst team in the 1890s decade set a baseball record for losing 134 games in a season, a record never likely to be duplicated.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=225554 (269 words)

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		T[H]e years that bridge the end of the Civil War in 1865 with the closing of the West in the early 1890s are of vital significance to the American psyche.
		During the 1890s, most professional fl players were limited to playing in exhibition games on "colored" teams on the barnstorming circuit.
		In the early 1890s, worried farmers in the West and the South formed the Populist party, hoping to win control of state and federal government and use that control to protect their farms and way of life.
	www.lycos.com /info/1890s.html (704 words)

	Kingwood College Library - 19th Century - the 1890s
		A wife writing some fifty years after the fact described how her husband had sought an education in a rural area of southern Arkansas in order to realize his dream of becoming a Presyterian minister, Thomas A. Spooner.
		The financial difficuties, the travel difficulties in reaching school, the difficulties experienced on becoming a teacher at the ripe old age of nineteen, all form a part of the narrative of what was probably a typical ambitious rural youth of the 1890's.
		They wore their hair parted in the middle or slightly left of center and were generally either clean shaven or had little mustaches waxed and turned up at the ends.
	kclibrary.nhmccd.edu /19thcentury1890.htm (3216 words)

	My 1890s Worth Ballgown
		I did the knife pleating with a pleating mat (where your fold the fabric into the premade folds, then steam iron, let it cool, then move to the next section).
		The knife pleated ruffle is only along the front part of the skirt, which seems to be how they did it in the 1890s based on the vintage skirt.
		The rest of the ruffle on the vintage skirt was simply gathered, with what looked to be a ruffling foot (at least it gave the same effect as my machine's ruffling foot does) but was also pinked into scallops rather than straight as mine was.
	mysite.verizon.net /res6rdvf/id20.html (1094 words)

	The 1890s: Jim Crow Laws - Texas State Library
		By the 1880s, the constitutional rights guaranteed to African Americans in the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments had begun to be curtailed.
		Only three African Americans were elected to the Texas Legislature during the 1890s.
		But the expression was used by writers in the 1890s.
	www.tsl.state.tx.us /exhibits/forever/endofanera/page3.html (162 words)

	The poets and poetry of the 1890s - a millennial view Contemporary Review - Find Articles
		It is the winter of 1891, and in an upper room or cenacle at the Cheshire Cheese, a Fleet Street tavern, beloved once, tradition murmurs, of Dr. Johnson, a reverentish chime of tyro poets are met.
		As clearly reflected by the augmented content of the newly-issued second edition of the Penguin Poetry of the 1890s,(*) first published twenty-seven years ago, the finde-vingtieme-siecle concern seems to be the recognition of the part played by women's writing in the poetry of the last century's final years.
		Two themes which were of crucial import to fin-de-siecle women poets were that of the New Woman, anxious about her place within the social arena, and that of the Woman as Artist, defining her place within the literary tradition.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2242/is_n1591_v273/ai_21089093 (529 words)

	boys clothing styles : 1890s
		Despite the political stability of the late 1890s, change was in fact everwhere--especially in America.
		The 1890s were the last decade of the Victorian era.
		Dresses: Mothers continued dressing small boys in dresses, but it during the 1890s it became rare to see a boy much over 6 years in a dress.
	histclo.com /chron/c1890.html (2329 words)

	The 1890s Hypermedia Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The 1890s Hypermedia Archive is an on-line instrument designed to facilitate the scholarly study of fin-de-siècle culture.
		In its ideally envisioned form, The 1890s Hypermedia Archive will include the tools for complex searches and comparisons of the period's images and texts as well as searchable audio links to its songs, sounds, and speeches.
		The first stage of the 1890s Hypermedia Archive, The Yellow Book Project is dedicated to publishing an annotated scholarly edition of the periodical's 13 volumes, and to developing interactive research and pedagogical tools and an on-line site for refereed articles addressing fin-de-siècle cultural studies.
	www.ryerson.ca /1890s (221 words)

	1890s - Research the news about 1890s - from HighBeam Research
		In the early 1890s, however, it was widely believed that a...
		Daily News Record; May 22, 1992; Stuart, Frank; 401 Words 1890s: TOUGH TIME FOR SHEEP RANCHERS Things were rough for U.S. wool ranchers in the wild and wooly West at the peak of the cattle-sheep wars in the 1890s.
		Japan was a source of skilled and unskilled workers, and also prostitutes, in the 1890s, while the early 1900s brought growing...
	www.highbeam.com /search.aspx?q=1890s&ref_id=ency_botnm (1172 words)

	Grain Elevators (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		More than this could be done, in fact, for money can be borrowed at 5 per cent yearly, and as the fire-proof house would be a net savings of 7 per cent yearly on its cost, there would be a net saving of 2 per cent per year.
		n the 1890s, engineers in Buffalo and elsewhere began to explore seriously the use of new, fireproof materials in the construction of grain elevators.
		As early as the middle of the 1890s, Ernest V. Johnson (who was the son of the designer of the earlier iron Plympton Elevator) patented a practical system of tile bin construction that was used by the Barnett-Record Company of Minneapolis, a builder of many tile elevators.
	ah.bfn.org /h/elev/hist/3/index.html (4746 words)

	1890s Photo Card (CDVs) Backs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		W.Baker by Reg C E and C has everything that an 1890s card should have to be good, cherub angels, grecian ladies, art equipment and flowers, at this time most studios were art shops as well selling painting supplies as well as photographs and picture frames.
		The next, an early Williams and Williams has a design that belongs in the late 1880s, this was replaced by the next card 'The Horn of Plenty' and this was used perhaps 1893 to about 1901 and probably occurs in your album.
		You probably have some cards with a plain green back and gold writing on the lower front, these can date from the mid 1880s to the late 1890s and have to be dated by the clothes worn.
	www.cartes.freeuk.com /time/back90.htm (365 words)

	Jim Crow and the 1890s
		The 1890s were a period of intense, horrifying racial violence and deliberate, sustained political oppression of African Americans.
		By the 1890s, there was a generation gap between those born and raised under slavery and those raised free.
		The violence of the 1890s was extreme, irrational, crazed, because the idea of "race" is itself deeply flawed, and unsustainable on its own.
	www.ferris.edu /jimcrow/links/misclink/1890s (4416 words)

	RPGnet : Review of Dark Designs: Occult Terrors In 1890s England
		The book begins with a one-page introductory chapter, most of which is taken up with an explanation of 1890s investigators.
		The first is that class is everything in 1890s Britain, and that the adventures are designed to be played with higher-class characters, as many doors will stay closed to lower-class investigators.
		Also useful is the provision of a small bibliography of fiction and non-fiction sources at the end of each adventure, which may make interesting background reading for the Keeper.
	www.rpg.net /reviews/archive/10/10992.phtml (1362 words)

	St. Petersburg, Russia on the road to capitalism (1840s to 1890s)
		When Alexander II was crowned Russian Emperor, the country was still reeling with a humiliating defeat at the hands of the Anglo-Franco-Turkish coolition in the Crimean War.
		By the 1890s construction was booming and new multi-storey apartment buildings were springing up all over the city.
		During this period the famous Mariinsky theater (formerly the Kirov Theater) was built along with a number of palaces for the country's Grand Dukes, Liteiny bridge was constructed (where the first street lights in the city were installed) and monuments to Catherine the Great, Nicholas I and the poet Alexander Pushkin were erected.
	www.saint-petersburg.com /history/1840-90.asp (327 words)

	AFRICA: 1890s ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER RESHAPED POLITICS, SOCIETY - Science - RedOrbit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		BROOKLIN, Canada, Nov. 27, 2006 (IPS/GIN) -- A prolonged drought in East Africa in the 1890s not only killed tens of thousands of the native Maasai people, it also reshaped the ecological and political landscape, according to new research.
		Droughts and also disease outbreaks took place from 1883 to 1902, a series of events which the Maasai dubbed the "Emutai" ("to wipe out").
		Not surprisingly, a severe famine persisted for much of the 1890s, according to the report published in the current issue of the African Journal of Ecology.
	www.redorbit.com /news/science/745790/africa_1890s_environmental_disaster_reshaped_politics_society/index.html?source=r_science (787 words)

	Welcome to the Crystal City: 1890s in Bowling Green, Ohio
		Two elements seem to be most important: a pictorial tour of Bowling Green in the 1890s and a timeline of important events in United States history during the same decade.
		The viewer is left with a greater understanding of the dramatic changes occurring in American society during the decade of the 1890s as a result of the American 1890s timeline and also has a better understanding of the types of buildings that existed in Bowling Green during that same time period.
		In contrast, “Ellis Island in the 1890s” is more limited.
	www.publichistory.org /reviews/view_review.asp?dbid=82 (2717 words)

	William Morris Society: Arts of the British 1890s Conference 1999
		This interdisciplinary conference in Washington, DC, exploring the arts of the British 1890s, is a joint collaboration of the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, the Georgetown University English Department, and the National Gallery of Art in association with the William Morris Society and the Eighteen Nineties Society.
		It will include a keynote address at the Freer Gallery, on the evening of Friday, 10 September by the author Merlin Holland (grandson of Oscar Wilde); one day of academic papers at Georgetown University; and a lecture by the distinguished Beardsley scholar Linda Zatlin at the National Gallery of Art on Sunday, 12 September.
		A related exhibition, "British Printmakers of the 1890s," will take place at Georgetown University's Fairchild Gallery, located on the 5th floor of Lauinger Library.
	www.morrissociety.org /conference.htm (325 words)

	NGA - Prints Abound: Paris in the 1890s, from the Collections of Virginia and Ira Jackson and the National Gallery of ...
		Prints Abound: Paris in the 1890s, from the Collections of Virginia and Ira Jackson and the National Gallery of Art
		Judith Brodie, associate curator of prints and drawings at the National Gallery of Art, and Phillip Dennis Cate, director of the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, were the curators.
		Catalogue: Prints Abound: Paris in the 1890s, From the Collections of Virginia and Ira Jackson and the National Gallery of Art, by Phillip Dennis Cate, Richard Thomson, and Gale B. Murray.
	www.nga.gov /past/data/exh783.shtm (243 words)

	historical girls' clothing: chronological listings -- 1890s
		Figure 1.--This English portrait is undated, but we believe was taken in the 1890s, probably the late 1890s.
		This was at the time a liberating look and the struggle for women's sufferage began in earnest in the 1890s.
		Early 1890s: Sailor dress and suit: English brother and sister
	histclo.com /girl/chron/gc-1890.html (441 words)

	The Living City \| New York City >> 1890s
		Specifically, the immigrant medical inspection represented a means not only of weeding out immigrants who would not serve as suitable "cogs" in America's industrial machinery, but also of disciplining the work class by imparting the values and expectations of industrial production to the newly arriving immigrant.
		In this respect, it was of a piece with a host of social movements-many spearheaded by women-that sought to reestablish order beginning in the mid-1880s and growing in the 1890s.
		After World War I and the beginnings of immigration restriction in 1921, the social forces driving the settlement house movement began to wan.
	www.tlcarchive.org /htm/decades/1890.htm (607 words)

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