Episodes Around: 18970101 to 18971231

  1. Arthur P. Thrasher Correspondence
    date 1895 to 1898map ST LOUIS CITY, Missouritags Agriculture, Economy, Migration/Transportation, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    Frank and Alice Thrasher lived on a houseboat called Eureka harbored at the end of Bower Street in St. Louis, Missouri in 1897. Their son, Glenn, worked nearby on a tugboat that went up and down the Mississippi, and Frank, a tinsmith from New Orleans, continued a desperate search for work throughout the year. Alice, also out of work, remained on the houseboat most of the time, except for a few explorations...

  2. Systematic Volunteer Work and Grassroots Efforts in Fairhope
    date January, 1897 to 1897map BALDWIN, Alabamatags Economy, Government

    The desire to awaken the noble impulses of humanity and to reform society along socioeconomic lines was something that the founders of Fairhope had as specific goals, outlined by the single tax principle. Just like other progressive movements at the time in the South though, the ideals blueprinted by the intellectuals could not be . In January of 1897 nearly all the members of the Fairhope community...

  3. Mobile Child Labor Reform Laws in 1897
    date 1897map MOBILE, Alabamatags Health/Death, Economy, Law, Politics

    The movement to reform child labor laws identified a new difficulty in the late part of the 1890's. In the year of 1897 citizens of Mobile and their representative Thomas H. Smith presented a series of bills to the Alabama Senate regarding child labor reform. These bills were purported to have come from the Mobile Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge. All were shot down in committees....