Realism

By jtaplin

  • Mark Twain-The Gilded Age

    Opens on Broadway
  • Thomas Eakins-The Gross Clinic

    Thomas Eakins-The Gross Clinic

  • Farmer's Alliance formed

    Lampasas, Texas
    ?

  • "Adventures of Tom Sawyer" published

  • Edison announces Phonograph invention

  • Edison files patent for carbon Microphone

  • James Bland's "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" published

    ?

  • Henry James, "Portrait of a Lady" published

  • Standard Oil Trust formed

    ?

  • Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" published

    ?
  • Thomas Eakins-Swimming

    Thomas Eakins-Swimming

  • Teddy Roosevelt travels to the Badlands

    Leaves Republican convention in disgust

  • Huntington builds Newport News Ship Building Co.

    ?

  • Jacob Riis' "Flashes from the Slums" published by New York Sun

    use of the flash

  • George Eastman registers "Kodak" trademark

    receives patent for first dry roll film

  • George Washington Johnson records "Laughing Coon"

    ? Was it for Edison?
  • Winslow Homer-Rowing Home

    Winslow Homer-Rowing Home

  • Populist Party Convention

    Columbus, Nebraska

  • Jacob Riis' "How the Other Half Lives" published

  • Ohio sues Standard Oil for Monopoly

  • Populist Presidential Candidate James Weaver wins 4 states

  • Panic of 1893

    Philidelphia and Reading Railroad goes bankrupt

  • Mark Twain introduced to Henry Rogers

    ?
    Rogers takes control of Twain's finances.
    wain also introduced Rogers to journalist Ida M. Tarbell, who interviewed the robber baron for a muckraking expose that led indirectly to the break-up of the Standard Oil Trust. On cruises aboard the Kanawha, Twain and Rogers were joined at frequent intervals by Booker T. Washington, the famed former slave who had become a leading educator.

  • Scott Joplin's first band in Chicago

    World's Fair

  • Henry Ford appointed Chief Engineer at Edison Illuminating

  • Will Marion Cook's "Opera of Uncle Tom's Cabin" cancelled

    Chicago World's Fair
    ?

  • Stephen Crane's "Red Badge of Courage" published

    ?

  • Buddy Bolden Jazz Band formed

    ?

  • First test drive of Ford Quadricycle

  • Hearst News papers reveal Cuban Concentration camps

    ?
    The beginning of prapaganda war for Cuban invasion

  • USS Maine Sunk in Havana Harbor

    Spanish American War

  • Battle of San Juan Hill

    Col.Teddy Roosevelt

  • Teddy Roosevelt elected Governor of New York

  • Standard Oil of New Jersey becomes Rockefeller Holding Company

    Controls 91% of Oil refinery market

  • Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag" published

  • Mark Twain denounces US Imperialism in N Y Herald

  • Teddy Roosevelt elected Vice President

  • Twain's "To The Person Sitting in Darkness" published by North American Review

  • Mark Twain founds the Anti-imperialism League

    ?

  • President McKinley assassinated

  • Teddy Roosevelt becomes President

  • Mark Twain introduces Henry Rogers to Ida Tarbell

    Mark Twain introduces Henry Rogers to Ida Tarbell

    Beginning of the Standard Oil Expose

  • Tarbell's "Hitory of Standard Oil"-McClures magazine

  • Jack London-"Call of the Wild"

    Jack London-"Call of the Wild"

  • Ford Motor Company incorporated

  • Jelly Roll Morton's first songs published

    "Jelly Roll Blues"
    ?

  • Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" published

  • Panic of 1907

    Knickerbocker Trust fails

  • DOJ sues Standard Oil under Anti Trust act

  • Anti-Saloon League has first major success in Illionois

  • Joe "King" Oliver and Kid Ory form a jazz Band in New Orleans

    ?

  • The Armory Show

  • Ford introduces $5 per day wage

    First Assembly Line- The birth of scale

  • Archduke Ferdinand Assassinated

  • Austria declares war on Serbia

    1st World War begins
  • D.W.Griffith-The Birth of a Nation

    D.W.Griffith-The Birth of a Nation

  • Ford Peace Ship departs for Europe

    ?

  • Steiglitz exhibits Paul Strand's "Wall Street"

  • Ku Klux Klan reorganized in Atlanta

    Ku Klux Klan reorganized in Atlanta

  • Russian "February Revolution" begins

  • U.S. declares War on Germany

  • Walter Lippman joins Committee on Public Information

    The birth of American propaganda

  • Georgia O'Keefe's first show at Steiglitz's 291 Gallery

  • President Wilson signs the Selective Service Act

  • President Wilson signs the Espionage Act

  • Emma Goldman arrested for Anti-Draft activities

  • W.C. Handy records "Livery Stable Blues"

  • Russian "October Revolution"

  • Wilson signs the Anti-Sedition Act

  • Armistice signed with Germany

    WWI ends

  • General Motors begins International expansion

    Buys control of the McLaughlin Motor Car Company of Canada and renames it General Motors of Canada

  • General Electric forms Radio Corporation of America

  • Palmer Raids begin

  • Prohibition begins

  • Great Recession of 1920 begins

  • Sacco and Vanzetti Arrested

  • Warren G. Harding elected President

  • Ku Klux Klan reaches 3 million members