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The Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870-1912
Topic: MemoryTopic: ProgressTopic: PeopleTopic: PowerTopic: Empire
Topic: People: Assimilation and the Crucible of the City
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Resource Menu: People
Text 1. The American Metropolis
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Text 2. Coney Island
Text 3. Horatio Alger, Jr., Ragged Dick
Text 4. Lewis W. Hine photographs
Text 5. Jacob Riis, How the Other Lives
Text 6. Anzia Yezierska, Russians
Text 7. Two Wives
Text 8. Lee Chew, The Biography of a Chinaman
Text 9. Exclusion
Text 10. Zitkala-Sa, Native Americans

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1.  The American Metropolis (PDF)
- "State Street, Chicago," photograph, 1905
- George Bellows, New York, oil on canvas, 1911 Discussing Art
    George Bellows, New York
Bellows, New York
  
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Bellows, New York, from the National Gallery of Art

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George Bellows (American 1882-1925), New York, 1911. Oil on canvas, 42 x 60 in. (106.7 x 152.4 cm). National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon: 1986.72.1. Permission pending.

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