From our contemporary vantage point, we should take the time to look back to how people in American communities lived at the beginning of the 20th century.
The focus of this work is Evansville--in the early 1900s, the only emerging metropolis between Louisville and St. Louis, and then the radial center of a hinterland stretching in all directions for at least 100 miles. Evansville illustrates how the city landscape changed because of the early industrial era, how people made a living and related to each other, and how they spent their leisure time. About one-fifth of the images... Read More
From our contemporary vantage point, we should take the time to look back to how people in American communities lived at the beginning of the 20th century.
The focus of this work is Evansville--in the early 1900s, the only emerging metropolis between Louisville and St. Louis, and then the radial center of a hinterland stretching in all directions for at least 100 miles. Evansville illustrates how the city landscape changed because of the early industrial era, how people made a living and related to each other, and how they spent their leisure time. About one-fifth of the images... Read More
