Tag: immigrants

• Artist: Eastman Johnson

  Just wanted to see this again . . . enjoy daylight savings. THE HISTORY OF DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME

  Adrienne Morris

  March 11, 2016

  19th Century Art, Art, Uncategorized

  19th century hats, Art, Beauty, daylight savings, Eastman Johnson, Fashion, Gold, immigrants

• Gardening in New York (teacher encourages boy gardener)

  Poor, but off the X-BOX. CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE PHOTOS OF NYC IMMIGRANT FAMILIES 

  Adrienne Morris

  June 27, 2015

  Beautiful Images, Uncategorized, United States History

  19th century New York, community gardening, gardening, immigrants, Photography, X-Box

• A different kind of engineer: Boss Tweed

  “It’s hard not to admire the skill behind Tweed’s system … The Tweed ring at its height was an engineering marvel, strong and solid, strategically deployed to control key power points: the courts, the legislature, the treasury and the ballot box. Its frauds had a grandeur of scale and an elegance of structure: money-laundering, profit…

  Adrienne Morris

  July 23, 2014

  19th Century Art, Evil Men, Uncategorized

  19th century politics, Boss Tweed, corrupt democrats, Corrupt Politicians, Gilded Age, immigrants, machine politics, NYC, Politicians, Thomas Nast

• Chinese Exclusion Act

  Adrienne Morris

  June 21, 2014

  Uncategorized

  19th century, chinese americans, chinese exclusion act, immigrants, labor, United States History