The Gilded Age

Thomas Nast Prints
http://www.printsoldandrare.com/thomasnast/

Thomas Nast. Com
http://www.thomasnast.com/default.htm

Child Labor in America-Louis Hine Photographs
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html

Immigrant and Ethnic America
http://immigrants.harpweek.com/

Central and Pacific Railroad
http://www.cprr.com/Museum/index.html

John D. Rockfeller and the Standard Oil Company
http://www.micheloud.com/FXM/SO/rock.htm

Andrew Carnegie-The American Experience
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/

The Gilded Age and the Politics of Corruption
http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/lectures/lecture04.html
Lecture notes for a college class.

The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era
http://bss.sfsu.edu/cherny/gapesites.htm
Links to web sites for a college class.

The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era
http://www.tntech.edu/www/acad/hist/gilprog.html

Women of the Gilded Age
http://englishwww.humnet.ucla.edu/individuals/eng188/apallas/womenhp.html
This is a paper on the UCLA web site based two literary characters (Lily in The House of Mirth and Maggie in Stephen Crane's novel, Maggie, a Girl of the Street). Considerable research has been done on the lives of women in this time and the paper has links so that you can find the information easily.

The Triangle Factory Fire
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/

How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis
http://tenant.net:80/Community/Riis/title.html

Guilded Age Documents
http://www.wm.edu/~srnels/giltext.html