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Images
and Maps
The
Transportation Revolution
(An interactive map from A
Biography of America)
The
Transportation Revolution: A Timeline
(From A
Biography of America)
Early
Railroads
Inland
Navigation: Connecting the New Republic, 1790-1840
(Along with nice essays, this site includes many
prints and engravings of modes of transportation
during this time period.)
Railroad
Maps, 1828-1900
(From the Library of Congress American
Memory collection)
Agriculture
Implements
Early
Industrialization in Lowell, Massachusetts
Bar
Chart: U.S. Immigration, 1820-1970
HarpWeek:
Political Prints for Locofocos
Blackface
Minstrelsy, 1830-1852
Pre-1852
Minstrel Songs
Primary Sources
Interpreting
the Irish Famine, 1846-1850
(This site contains numerous first-hand accounts.)
Uses
of Liberty Rhetoric Among Lowell Mill Girls
Harriet
Robinson: Lowell Mill Girls
Secondary Sources
"Eli
Whitney (1765-1825)" by Bill Eberius
Economics
of the 1830s: An Overview
"The
Antebellum Transportation Revolution and Factor-Price
Convergence" by Matthew J. Slaughter
Taming
the Wilderness: Rivers, Roads, Canals, and Railroads
(This essay includes many images.)
"From
Cellar to Shingles: Early Nineteenth-Century Building
Trades" by Robert Cottrell
The
American Immigration Home Page
American
Labor History: An Online Study Guide
Minstrel
Shows: "That Shuff-a-lin' Throng"
"Creating
a New County: Nassau" by Edward J. Smits
Peopling
St. Louis: The Immigration Experience
The
Erie Canal Company
(This essay includes numerous images.)
History
of the Erie Canal
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