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January 1 – Queens and Staten Island merge with New York City. January 4 – The American Society of Landscape Architects, still in existence 125 years later, is founded. January 9 – George F. Hoar, a U.S. Senator for Massachusetts, speaks out in the Senate against American expansion into the Philippines. The text of Hoar's speech is sent ...
Showing the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam — the deadliest single day in the American Civil War [s 2] [s 3] The Scourged Back: c. 2 April 1863: McPherson & Oliver: Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States One of the most widely distributed photos of the abolitionist movement. [s 3] Execution of the Lincoln Conspirators at Washington Arsenal ...
The Great Blizzard of 1899, also known as the Great Arctic Outbreak of 1899 and the St. Valentine's Day Blizzard, was an exceptionally severe winter weather event that affected most of the United States, particularly east of the Rocky Mountains. On February 11, Swift Current in present-day Saskatchewan reported a record-high barometric pressure ...
t. e. The 1890s (pronounced "eighteen-nineties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1890, and ended on December 31, 1899. In American popular culture, the decade would later be nostalgically referred to as the "Gay Nineties" ( Gay as in 'carefree', 'cheerful', or 'bright and showy').
Births. January 20. Pierre Gandon, French illustrator and engraver of postage stamps (died 1990) Clarice Cliff, English ceramic artist (died 1972) February 15. Lillian Disney, American artist and wife of Walt Disney (died 1997) Grethe Jürgens, German painter (died 1981)
1882 hand-colored map depicting the western half of the continental United States. This timeline of the American Old West is a chronologically ordered list of events significant to the development of the American West as a region of the continental United States. The term "American Old West" refers to a vast geographical area and lengthy time ...
This is a list by date of birth of historically recognized American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking, as well as more recent genres, including installation art, performance art, body art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.
Category. v. t. e. Mulberry Street, on the Lower East Side, circa 1900. During the years of 1898–1945, New York City consolidated. New York City became the capital of national communications, trade, and finance, and of popular culture and high culture. More than one-fourth of the 300 largest corporations in 1920 were headquartered there.