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Rutherford B. Hayes
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Rutherford B. Hayes
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/rh19.html
A portrait and a biography of Hayes.
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The Internet Public Library - Presidents of the United States -- Rutherford Birchard Hayes
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/rbhayes.html
A Rutherford B. Hayes profile, with presidential election results, a list of his Cabinet members, etc. Includes links to other Hayes sites and to related historical documents.
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Rutherford B. Hayes
http://www.ohiobio.org/president/rhayes.html
A photo and a profile of Hayes with a few related links.
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The Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes
http://www.rbhayes.org/archives.htm
3,000 pages of searchable diary entries from Hayes at age 12 until his death in 1893 at age 70. Also provides links to his letters and papers.
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Today in History: October 4
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/oct04.html
An illustrated biography of Hayes with related links.
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Darkness and Light- The Interwar Years, l865-1898
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/amh/AMH-13.htm
An American military history from 1865-1898. Includes an account of the railroad strike and Hayes' use of federal troops.
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Marshall Field
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People in the West - Marshall Field
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/d_h/field.htm
A brief biography of Field.
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Jazz Age Chicago - Marshall Field and Company
http://chicago.urban-history.org/sites/d_stores/fields.htm
An illustrated account of the origins and growth of Marshall Field.
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Philip Armour
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Armour Packing Company
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Danforth_Armour
The history of the Armour Packing Company in Kansas City.
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Gustavus Swift
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The Cases of Daniel McCallum and Gustavus Swift
http://www.willamette.edu/~fthompso/MgmtCon/McCallum.htm
The stories of McCallum and Swift.
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Refrigerator Cars (Reefers) History
http://www.chiptin.com/schlitz/reefers.htm
The history of the development of refrigerator cars.
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Andrew Carnegie
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American Experience: The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/
A comprehensive Carnegie site, with links to many aspects of his life and work, including a background of the steel mill, timelines, a biography, excerpts from his diary and letters, etc.
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History of Andrew Carnegie and Carnegie Libraries
http://www.andrewcarnegie.cc/
A portrait of Carnegie with many links to Carnegie related sites.
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Today in History - March 12
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/mar12.html
A brief biography of Carnegie with related links.
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About Carnegie Corporation
http://www.carnegie.org/sub/about/biography.html
A biography of Carnegie with a photo.
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Bridging the Urban Landscape: Andrew Carnegie: A Tribute
http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/carnegie.html
An analysis of Carnegie with a photo and related links.
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Modern History Sourcebook: Andrew Carnegie: The Gospel of Wealth, 1889
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1889carnegie.html
An introduction and the text of Carnegie's Wealth, from the North American Review.
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The Steel Industry
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Bessemer Process
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessemer_process
A description and history of the Bessemer converter.
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Steel Manufacturing
http://www.anselm.edu/homepage/dbanach/h-carnegie-steel.htm
A history of steel manufacture.
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William Le Baron Jenney
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Le Baron Jenney
http://architecture.about.com/od/greatarchitects/p/jenney.htm
A brief profile of Jenney with a photo and links to the buildings he designed.
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American Experience: Technology in America: Telephone: Timeline
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/telephone/timeline/index.html
An interactive timeline with a reference to Jenney's skyscraper.
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Today in History - September 20
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/sep20.html
Provides a reference to Jenney and the world's first tall building; the ten-story Home Insurance Company Building in Chicago. Includes a photo of the building.
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Great Uprising of 1877
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Reconstructing Representation
http://www.joshbrownnyc.com/reconrep/index.html
A chapter from the American Social History Project with an account of the Great Uprising and illustrations from a local newspaper.
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Kearneyism, the Chinese, and Labor Unrest in California - 1877
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist6/kearneyism.html
An account of the labor unrest in California in 1877.
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William Dean Howells on technology
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Corliss Steam Engine
http://www.150.si.edu/chap4/4ngin.htm
A picture of the Corliss steam engine and William Dean Howells' quotation, "It is in ...things of iron and steel."
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Mechanization takes Command
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~drbr/corporat.html
An excerpt from The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age. Includes a paragraph on Howells and the full quotation "It is in...things of iron and steel..."
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The William Dean Howells Society site
http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/howells/index.html
A Howells site with a photo and related links.
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The Chicago Stockyards
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A Brief Sketch of Working People's History in Illinois
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/irx/briefhistory.htm
An essay on the history of working people in Illinois.
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Rudyard Kipling
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The Kipling Society
http://www.kipling.org.uk/
A Rudyard Kipling site, with a biography, links to his writings, a chronology, a picture file, etc.
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