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Gottlieb Daimler
Gottlieb Daimler , 1834-1900, German engineer, inventor, and pioneer automobile manufacturer. His improvements in the internal-combustion engine, made in the 1880s, contributed largely to the development of the automobile industry. In 1890 he founded the Daimler Motor Company at Cannstatt, Germany. ... Read more
Barstow
Barstow , city (1990 pop. 21,472), San Bernardino co., SE Calif., on the dry Mojave River; founded in the 1880s as a silver-mining town, inc. 1947. Railroad shops and the Goldstone space tracking station are major employers. Several U.S. military facilities are nearby. Barstow is an outfitting point... Read more
Camorra
Camorra , Italian secret criminal association in Naples. Of controversial origin, it first came to light in 1830. Its activities spread by intimidation, blackmail, and bribery until Naples was controlled by it. The Camorra appears to have been used by the Bourbon rulers of Naples as a quasi-police n... Read more
Nick Carter
Nick Carter fictional detective character in dime novels said to have been created by J. R. Coryell in the 1880s. The firm of Street & Smith, New York City, published over 1,000 stories about Nick Carter, written variously by F. V. R. Dey, E. T. Sawyer, G. C. Jenks, and others. The name Nichola... Read more
Aspen
Aspen , city (1990 pop. 5,049), alt. 7,850 ft (2,390 m), seat of Pitkin co., S central Colo., on the Roaring Fork River; founded c.1879 by silver prospectors, inc. 1881. Declining after an 1880s-90s boom, it was transformed in the 1930s into a ski resort. Affluent, cosmopolitan Aspen is now noted fo... Read more
Haskalah
Haskalah , [Heb.,=enlightenment] Jewish movement in Europe active from the 1770s to the 1880s. Beginning in Germany in the circle of the German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and spreading to Galicia and Russia, the Haskalah called for increased secularization of Jewish life through secular le... Read more
William Wirt Kimball
William Wirt Kimball 1848-1930, American naval officer, b. Paris, Maine, grad. Annapolis, 1869. One of the first to serve on torpedo boats, he did much in the 1880s to develop magazine and machine guns, and he designed armored cars. In the 90s he did important work in the development of the submari... Read more
Emma Lazarus
Emma Lazarus 1849-87, American poet and essayist, b. New York City. Her early verse includes Admetus and Other Poems (1871) and The Spagnoletto (1876), a poetic drama. Enraged by the Russian pogroms of the 1880s, she became an impassioned spokeswoman for Judaism, writing many essays and the boo... Read more
Lillian Russell
Lillian Russell 1861-1922, American singer and actress, b. Clinton, Iowa. Her original name was Helen Louise Leonard. She first appeared in light opera in 1879. In the early 1880s her introduction by Tony Pastor at his casino in New York City launched her career as "The American Beauty." After ... Read more
time and motion study
time and motion study analysis of the operations required to produce a manufactured article in a factory, with the aim of increasing efficiency. Each operation is studied minutely and analyzed in order to eliminate unnecessary motions and thus reduce production time and raise output, which increase... Read more

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Mass Marketing
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...market his products but tried again in the 1880s with happier results. Henry Ford felt...undreamed of when mass marketing began in the 1880s. These include all the apparatuses of...these existed in the United States by the 1880s. After a devastating Civil War and a deep...
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...But he gradually won acceptance. By the 1880s he was an established figure in the Salons...to certain avant-garde artists of the 1880s and 1890s. Although Puvis claimed he was...on and Science, Art, and Letters (1880s) in the Sorbonne. In Lyons he executed...
Nationalist Party
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History ...went regularly to Nationalists. In the 1880s most MPs were young agrarian militants, but the average age rose from 40 in the 1880s to 55 in 1918. Outside the divided north...although about half of the Irish party in the 1880s came from humbler occupational backgrounds...
trade unionism
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History ...which their industries prospered. From the 1880s their mainly Protestant members abandoned...councils, became important in Ireland in the 1880s. The Belfast and Dublin councils were...Labour, came from Britain in the late 1880s. Their leadership was politically motivated...
Yellow Fever
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...national health policy ended in the early 1880s, but the standard was taken up again in the late 1880s by the Marine Hospital Service. This federal...built disinfecting quarantine stations in the 1880s and 1890s to kill the suspected yellow fever...
Orlando: History
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the United States ...Industry Spurs Development Prior to the 1880s, the two biggest industries in central...breeding and cotton growing. During the 1880s some of the pioneers started growing citrus...first rail lines by 1881, and during the 1880s and 1890s there was an influx of new fruit...
Bukhara
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...increased over the years. In the mid-1880s Bukhara's capital was connected by telegraph...the khanate. In the latter part of the 1880s three Russian urban enclaves, and a fourth...two and a half times between the mid-1880s and the early 1890s, grew slowly thereafter...
Chaminade, Cécile
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...as a composer. Wrote Opera In the early 1880s, Chaminade's career as a performer picked...continued to gain momentum throughout the 1880s; the Suite for orchestra was performed...cities. Two important events in the late 1880s conspired to push Chaminade's career...
Hall, Oakley
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature ...Southwest frontier mining town during the 1880s; The Downhill Racers (1963), about...and farmers in South Dakota during the 1880s; Lullaby (1982), the story of dreadful...war in New Mexico against Apaches in the 1880s. Hall has also written The Art and Craft...
Terence Vincent Powderly
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...remarkable growth and rapid decline in the 1880s. Terence V. Powderly was born in Carbondale...dramatically successful strikes during the early 1880s. The most notable involved a strike against...unsuited to the industrial turmoil of the 1880s. Disliking strikes and other conflicts...

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Chicago
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...group from 1850 to 1920. In the 1870s and 1880s, Scandinavian immigrants added to the...reaper works to Chicago, and by the late 1880s, the midwestern metropolis was producing...of its kind in the world. In the early 1880s, George Pullman erected his giant railroad...
Track and Field
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...spectacles. One race in Boston in the mid-1880s was run indoors by contestants from a wide...circuits per meet, disappeared in the 1880s and are barely remembered today. By the...amateur status was a badge of honor. In the 1880s and 1890s, the athletic club model caught...
College Athletics
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...aspect of the football program from the 1880s to 1911, and his teams won eleven national...faculty athletic committees in the early 1880s, and most schools quickly followed suit...organization it thrived. Finally, the 1880s and 1890s also saw several movements for...
Apartment Houses
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...apartment houses were built in 1875. By the 1880s, apartment living not only had shed its...the first electric elevators in the late 1880s, along with fireproof steel frame construction...a concept first introduced in the early 1880s as "home clubs" by New Yorker Philip...
Citrus Industry
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...attracted to the area in the late 1870s and 1880s did the rail lines begin to push southward...the east of Los Angeles in the 1870s and 1880s, the groundwork was laid for the Citrus...Railroad and the railroad rate wars of the 1880s, and some horticultural, such as the...
Koch, Alexander
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...highly influential in promoting new architecture and design from the 1880s, not to be confused with Alexander Koch of Zürich and London. He established his firm in the 1880s, bringing out successful journals such as Fachblatt fü...
Cowboys
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...hours, often under difficult conditions, for wages that in the 1880s ranged from $25 to $30 per month, cowboys were self-reliant...professional drovers hired by independent contractors. By the mid-1880s, the open range style of cattle ranching had given way to more...
Farmers' Alliance
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...group to Chicago in 1880. Both began quite small but over the 1880s absorbed other local groups such as the Louisiana Farmers...drought on the Plains prompted thousands to join, and by the late 1880s Alliance influence was widespread across the South and Plains...
Marketing
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...have marked the history of our republic. Until roughly the 1880s, the economy was characterized by market fragmentation. Geographical...wholesaling also aided mass marketing, beginning in the 1870s and 1880s with meat packers like Gustavus Swift. Franchise agreements...
Minneapolis–St. Paul
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...American Fur Company and the Great Northern Railroad. By the 1880s, a new flour milling technique made Minneapolis the nation...Drawing early migrants from New England and Canada, and by the 1880s from Germany, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Minneapolis...

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Blacks in 1880s Toronto: the search for equality.
Magazine article from: Ontario History; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; Abstract By the 1880s Toronto had a well established black community...issues that drew attention in Toronto in the 1880s. Blacks ultimately succeeded in these...administratif. ********** By the 1880s, Canada's role as a haven for fugitive...
Carriage Hill offering 1880s etiquette Two-session workshop teaches 'proper' etiquette
Newspaper article from: Dayton Daily News; 12/30/2004; ; 594 words ; ...like to attend a finishing school in the 1880s. During the first session, they will...Carriage Hill, where employees dress in 1880s garb while performing household and farm...suggests that because of the structure of 1880s finishing schools, this program may only...
Carriage Hill offering 1880s finishing school etiquette Two-session workshop teaches 'proper' etiquette
Newspaper article from: Dayton Daily News; 12/30/2004; ; 601 words ; ...like to attend a finishing school in the 1880s. During the first session, they will...Carriage Hill, where employees dress in 1880s garb while performing household and farm...suggests that because of the structure of 1880s finishing schools, this program may only...
Museum seeks volunteers for 1880s program
Newspaper article from: Redlands Daily Facts; 7/26/2008; 540 words ; ...the San Bernardino County Museum's "1880s at Work and Play" program. Orientation...for volunteers to participate in the "1880s at Work and Play" program. Prospective...Sept. 3, or Thursday, Sept. 4. In "1880s at Work and Play," museum visitors get...
Choice flies of the 1880s.
Magazine article from: New York State Conservationist; 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...well-known guides and fishermen of the 1880s era were asked, based on their experience...descriptions of the top six flies of the 1880s according to my research, along with a...barbs Body: yellow floss Rib: in the 1880s, oval or round gold tinsel; today, flat...
Museum seeks volunteers for '1880s at Work and Play'
Newspaper article from: Redlands Daily Facts; 8/21/2007; 421 words ; ...visitors this fall and winter called "1880s at Work and Play!" Prospective volunteers...Sept. 7, or Saturday, Sept. 8. In "1880s at Work and Play!" museum visitors will get a chance to experience life in the 1880s when they wash clothes on a washboard and...
Time stays in 1880s at Volkening Farm
Newspaper article from: Schaumburg Review (IL); 1/6/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...reminder of what life was like on a typical 1880s German dairy farm. As a part of Schaumburg...different persona. A typical farmer in 1880s Schaumburg had 16 cows, 75 chickens...It was enlarged by later owners in the 1880s. The park district moved the house to...
SAN PEDRO; Brigantines will hit water Saturday; WILMINGTON. Banning museum focuses on 1880s. SAN PEDRO. Teachers will be honored at lunch
Newspaper article from: Daily Breeze; 4/24/2002; ; 576 words ; ...WILMINGTON. Banning museum focuses on 1880s. SAN PEDRO. SAN PEDRO . Brigantines will...WILMINGTON. Banningmuseum focuses on 1880s. SAN PEDRO. Brigantines will hit water...WILMINGTON Banning museum focuses on 1880s Travel back to the 1880s when dirt roads...
Crossing the Rio Grande: An Immigrant's Life in the 1880s
Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History; 11/1/2007; ; 696 words ; ...Rio Grande: An Immigrant's Life in the 1880s. By Luis G. Gmez. Edited by Guadalupe...Rio Grande: An Immigrant's Life in the 1880s is a journey into late-nineteenth-century...obtainable source-a Mexican immigrant in the 1880s. Gmez and many like him laid the foundations...
Crossing the Rio Grande: An Immigrant's Life in the 1880s.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History; 11/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...Rio Grande: An Immigrant's Life in the 1880s. By Luis G. Gomez. Edited by Guadalupe...Rio Grande: An Immigrant's Life in the 1880s is a journey into late-nineteenth-century...obtainable source--a Mexican immigrant in the 1880s. Gomez and many like him laid the foundations...