EyeWitness To The 19th Century

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valign="top"><img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="capital.htm"><B>Washington, D.C., 1800</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"I arrived in this city on Sunday the 16th. Having lost my way in the woods on Saturday." Abigail Adams describes the new capital and her ordeal in getting there.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="jeffersonwhitehouse.htm"><B>President Jefferson in the White House</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">His pet bird, the introduction of the dumb waiter, and dinner conversation - a frequent visitor provides a portrait of Jefferson as President.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="duel.htm"><img src="images/19duel.jpg" width="33" height="74" hspace="5" vspace="5" border="0" align="left"><B>A Duel At Dawn, 1804</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"<span class="narrative">. . .he gave the word <i>present</i>, as had been agreed on, and both parties presented and fired in succession.</span>" The fatal meeting of Vice President Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton on a New Jersey field.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="lordnelson.htm"><B>The Death of Lord Nelson, 1805</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"I am a dead man, Hardy. I am going fast: it will be all over with me soon." Britain's greatest naval hero meets his Maker during the Battle of Trafalgar.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="fulton.htm"><B>Fulton's First Steamboat Voyage, 1807</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"I could hear distinctly repeated- 'I told you it was so; it is a foolish scheme: I wish we were well out of it.' </font></span><p><img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="shanghaied.htm"><B>"Shanghaied", 1811</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"(I was) accosted by a person in seamen's dress who tapped me on the shoulder." Walking a street in London, a young man is forced into service in the British Navy.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="oldironsides.htm"><B>"Old Ironsides" Earns its Name, 1812</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F"> "...we commenced a very heavy fire from all our guns, loaded with round, and grape..." Barely 50 yards from her opponent, the USS <i>Constitution</i> shoots it out with a British frigate and wins the name "Old Ironsides."</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="washingtonsack.htm"><B>The British Burn Washington, 1814</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"They proceeded, without a moment's delay, to burn and destroy everything. . .connected with government." British troops sack the nation's capital during the War of 1812.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="dolleymadison.htm"><B>Dolley Madison Flees the White House, 1814</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"I must leave this house, or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it." America's First Lady flees the approaching British Army, and saves a portrait of George Washington.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="battleofneworleans.htm"><B>The Battle of New Orleans, 1815</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"<i>Well, in eighteen and fourteen we took a little trip along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Missip.</i>" A rag-tag force of Americans rout the world's mightiest military power in the last battle of the War of 1812.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="waterloo.htm"><B>The Battle of Waterloo, 1815</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">Napoleon's bid to dominate Europe is squashed with his defeat on a Belgian battlefield.</font></p> <p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="napoleon.htm"><B>Napoleon Exiled to St. Helena, 1815</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">The French Emperor is banished to a desolate, rock-crusted island in the South Atlantic.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="jacksoninauguration.htm"><B>The Inauguration of President of President Andrew Jackson, 1829</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"Ladies fainted, men were seen with bloody noses and such a scene of confusion took place as is impossible to describe," The celebration of the inauguration of the "People's President" gets out of hand.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="slaveship.htm"><B>Aboard a Slave Ship, 1829</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"The slaves were all inclosed under grated hatchways between decks." A minister recounts his experience of boarding a slave ship stopped off the coast of Africa</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="tomthumb.htm"><B>America's First Steam Locomotive, 1830</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">It was not a spectacular beginning: in its first outing, the locomotive <i>Tom Thumb</i> was beaten by a horse.</font><p><img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="america1830.htm"><B>A Portrait of America, 1830</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"Every boy knew that. . .there was nothing to hinder him from being President; all he had to do was to learn." America was on the threshold of dramatic change and buoyed by tremendous optimism for the future.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="nationalroad.htm"><B>Traveling the National Road, 1833</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"A covered one-horse wagon generally contains the whole worldly substance of a family consisting not un-frequently of a dozen members." Up and over the Allegheny Mountains, it was America's first gateway to the West and a pathway for dreams.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="eriecanal.htm"><B>Traveling the Erie Canal, 1836</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">It was the engineering marvel of its day. It made New York City America's premier port and opened up the West to the first wave of settlement. Ride along on a canal boat - but watch out for those low bridges!</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0">  <A HREF="slavelife.htm"><B>A Slave's Life</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"When I was about seven years old I witnessed, for the first time, the sale of a human being." A former slave describes her life.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="vic.htm"><B>Victoria Becomes Queen, 1837</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">The 18 year-old Victoria describes to her diary the day she became Queen of the world's mightiest empire.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="fdoug.htm"><B>Escape From Slavery, 1838</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">Frederick Douglass describes his dash to freedom.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="flogging.htm"><B>A Flogging at Sea, 1839</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"Swinging the rope over his head, and bending his body so as to give it full force, the captain brought it down upon the poor fellow's back. Once, twice - six times."</font><p><img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="tomthumbbarnum.htm"><B>P.T. Barnum Discovers "Tom Thumb," 1842</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"I had heard of a remarkably small child in Bridgeport. . ." The "World's Greatest Showman" finds his greatest attraction.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="shakers.htm"><img src="images/19shaker.jpg" width="29" height="60" hspace="5" vspace="5" border="0" align="right"><B>Living among the Shakers, 1843</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"During the dance the sisters kept on one side, and the brothers on the other, and not a word was spoken by any of them." The Shakers attempt to construct their own Utopia.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="redlight.htm"><B>Visit to the "Red Light" District, 1843</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"...there passed me a man holding up under his arm a woman who was so drunk that she could not walk alone." Descend into the dark side of early Victorian society in urban America.</font> <p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="irishfamine.htm"><B> The Irish Potato Famine, 1847</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"I saw the dying, the living, and the dead, lying indiscriminately upon the same floor." Travel with a reporter as he observes Ireland's greatest disaster</font></p> <p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="whaling.htm"><B>Aboard a Whaling Ship, 1850</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F"><i>Thar She Blows!</i>... "The boat spun after him with almost the swiftness of a top, now diving through the seas and tossing the spray, and then lying still while the whale sounded."</font></p> </td>   <td width="50%" valign="top"> <p><img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0">  <A HREF="mecca.htm"><B>Entering the Forbidden City of Mecca, 1853</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"...a splendid camel in front of me was shot through the heart." An intrepid British explorer risks his life to enter the holy city of Mecca.</font><p><img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="lightbrigade.htm"><B>The Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"They swept proudly past, glittering in the morning sun. . ." In an incident later immortalized by poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, a reporter describes the headlong charge of a British cavalry unit into murderous Russian gunfire.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="plantation.htm"><B>Life on a Southern Plantation, 1854</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"The plows at work, both with single and double mule teams, were generally held by women, and very well held, too." Life on a Mississippi plantation before the Civil War</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="fugitiveslave.htm"><B>Return of a Fugitive Slave, 1854</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"...a detachment of infantry charged upon the dense mass, at a run, with fixed bayonets." On the eve of the Civil War, the return of a fugitive slave ignites a near-riot in Boston.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="livingstone.htm"><B>Livingstone Discovers Victoria Falls, 1855</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">". . .we came in sight, for the first time, of the columns of vapor appropriately called 'smoke,' rising at a distance of five or six miles." The great explorer becomes the first European to witness the "Smoke That Thunders"</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="carnegie.htm"><B>Andrew Carnegie Becomes a Capitalist, 1856</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">“I showed them this check . . . none of us had ever received anything but from toil. A return from capital was something strange and new.” The world's richest man describes his transformation from worker to capitalist.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="slaveauction.htm"><img src="images/19slaveauction.jpg" width="65" height="45" hspace="5" border="0" align="right"><B>Slave Auction, 1859</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"...The expression on the faces of all who stepped on the block was always the same, and told of more anguish than it is in the power of words to express."</font><p><img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="ladiesetiquette1859.htm"><B>Good Manners for Young Ladies, 1859</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"After twilight, a young lady would not be conducting herself in a becoming manner, by walking alone."</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="john.htm"><B>The Trial of Andrew Johnson, 1868</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">The vote of one Senator saves the President of the United States from removal from office</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="kkk.htm"><B>The Ku Klux Klan, 1868</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"I shook hands with Bob before they hanged him." A former slave describes his encounters with the KKK soon after the end of the Civil War</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="stanley.htm"><B>Stanley Finds Livingstone, 1871</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="brooklynbridge.htm"><B>Building the Brooklyn Bridge, 1871</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"...a dreadful pain shot through both my ears." Nothing like it had ever been attempted before: join a "sandhog" working below the East River</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="baseball.htm"><B>The Baseball Glove Comes to Baseball, 1875</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"He confessed that he was a bit ashamed to wear it..."</font><p> <IMG Width="96" Height="94" Hspace="5" Vspace="5" SRC="images/1902.gif" ALT="The Death of President Garfield" BORDER=0 align="left"><img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="gar.htm"><B>The Death of President Garfield, 1881</B></A><br> <font color="3F3F3F">Who killed the President, his assassin or his doctors?</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="edison.htm"><B>A Portrait of Thomas Edison</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"I'm not a scientist. I am an inventor." An inside look at an inventor that changed our world.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="football.htm"><B>College Football, 1884</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"There were no coaches, trainers, rubbers, or even a water boy." A player describes the early days of college football.</font><p><img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="gildedage.htm"><B>Opulence in the Gilded Age, 1890</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"Then, all around , and in fact above the entire table, hung little golden cages with fine songsters who filled the room with their melody.. ". A lavish dinner party exemplifies the life of America's wealthiest during the "Gilded Age."</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="riis.htm"><B>Death of a Child, 1890</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"I found the patient on the top floor stretched upon two chairs. . ." Jacob Riis documents life in the New York City tenements.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="corbett.htm"><B>Corbett Knocks Out Sullivan, 1892</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">It was the "fight of the century" and the 1st Heavyweight Championship fought with gloves.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="hobo.htm"><B>Hobo, 1894: Hard Times in America</B></A> <BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"'Thirty days,' said his Honor. . . The trial of that hobo had taken just about fifteen seconds." Thousands of unemployed take to the roads and railways of America as economic depression plagues the country. Join one of these hobos.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="promisedland.htm"><B>Leaving Home for the "Promised Land", 1894</B></A> <BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"The procession [to the station] resembled both a funeral and a triumph. The women wept over us." A young girl describes the bittersweet departure of her family for America.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="duryea.htm"><B>America's First Automobile Race, 1895</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"While still in the lead, the left front wheel struck a bad rut at such an angle that the steering arm was broken off." NASCAR, the Indy 500: it all started here. Ride along in America's first automobile race.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="spray.htm"><B>First to Sail Around the World Alone, 1895-98</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">One of the greatest sea adventures ever told.</font></p> <p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="spanishwar.htm"><B>The United States Declares War on Spain, 1898</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"(The President) broke down and cried like a boy of thirteen." President McKinley reluctantly asks Congress to declare a war that launches America along the path to becoming a world power.</font></p> <p><img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A href= "manilabay.htm"><strong>The Battle of Manila Bay, 1898</strong></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"I am happy to report that the damage done to the squadron under my command was inconsiderable." The words of Commodore Dewey, Commander of America's Asiatic Squadron after its victory over the Spanish Fleet in the Philippines: a triumph that launched America's journey to becoming a world power.</font></p> <p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="roughriders.htm"><B>The Rough Riders Storm San Juan Hill, 1898</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">The successful charge up an obscure hill in Cuba during the Spanish-American War puts Theodore Roosevelt on the path to the presidency.</font></p> <p> </td>  </tr>  <tr> <td colspan="2"></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> </table></td> <td valign="top" width="120"> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://tags.expo9.exponential.com/tags/EyeWitnesstoHistorycom/ROS/tags.js"></script>  </td> </tr> </table> <p>  <table width="100%" bgcolor="#e6dfc8" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tr> <td valign="bottom"><div align="center"><span class="navigation"><a href="awfrm.htm">Ancient World</a> | <a href="mefrm.htm">Middle Ages/Renassiance</a> | <a href="17frm.htm">17th Century</a> | <a href="18frm.htm">18th Century</a> | <a href="19frm.htm">19th Century</a> | <a href="cwfrm.htm">Civil War</a> | <a href="owfrm.htm">Old West</a> | <a href="20frm.htm">20th Century</a></span></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td><div align="center"><span class="navigation"><a href="w1frm.htm">World War One</a> | <a href="w2frm.htm">World War Two</a> | <a href="photofrm.htm">Photo of the Week</a> | <a href="snpfrm.htm">SnapShots</a> | <a href="vofrm.htm">Voices</a> | <a href="himmenu.htm">History in Motion</a> | <a href="eyindx.htm">Index</a> | <a href="index.html">Home</a></span></div></td> </tr> </table> <TABLE border="0" bgcolor="#D1D2B4" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td valign="top"><div align="center"> <font face="arial" Size="-2">Copyright © Ibis Communications, Inc.<br> </div></td> </tr> </table> <table border="0" bgcolor="#D1D2B4" width="100%" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <TD align="left"><img src="images/boxbl4.gif" border="0" ALT=""></TD> <TD><img src="images/spacer.gif" HEIGHT="1" WIDTH="1" border="0" ALT=""></TD> <TD align="right" valign="middle"><img src="images/boxbr4.gif" border="0" ALT=""></TD> </tr> </table>  <script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript"> _uacct = "UA-1994783-1"; urchinTracker(); </script> </body> </html>

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