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Anaconda
Anaconda , city (1990 pop. 10,278), seat of Deer Lodge co., SW Mont.; inc. 1887. Marcus Daly chose this place (1883) for the Anaconda Copper Mining Company's processing operations, and in the 1890s tried unsuccessfully to make it Montana's capital. The city's famed high-stacked smelter was closed ... Read more
Thomas Beer
Thomas Beer 1889-1940, American author, b. Council Bluffs, Iowa, grad. Yale, 1911, and studied law at Columbia, 1911-13. He is best remembered for his biographies of Stephen Crane (1923) and Marcus (Mark) Hanna (1929) and his witty study of American manners in the 1890s, The Mauve Decade (1926). ... Read more
Cairo geniza
Cairo geniza , archive of ancient Jewish manuscripts found in the synagogue of Fostat-Cairo, Egypt (built 882). In the 1890s western scholars visited the synagogue and removed the materials to the Bodleian Library at the Univ. of Oxford, the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, and other major rep... Read more
Silchester
Silchester , village, Hampshire, S England. It is noted for the ruins of the Roman-British town Calleva Atrebatum. The outside walls (2,760 yd/2,524 m in circumference), forum, amphitheater, and entire plan of the city, including baths and several temples, were revealed through excavations beginning... Read more
Ketchikan
Ketchikan , city (1990 pop. 8,263), SE Alaska, a port of entry on Revillagigedo Island in the Alexander Archipelago. A supply point for miners in the gold rush of the 1890s, it has become a center of Alaska's fishing industry (especially salmon, halibut, and abalone). Its logging, and pulp industrie... Read more
Richard Le Gallienne
Richard Le Gallienne 1866-1947, English man of letters. As literary critic and contributor to the Yellow Book, he was associated with the fin-de-siècle aesthetes of the 1890s before becoming a resident of the United States. His works include the poems Volumes in Folio (1889), the novel ... Read more
Tomsk
Tomsk , city (1989 pop. 502,000), capital of Tomsk region, W central Siberian Russia, on the Tom River. It is a major river port and freight transit point, and is a regional headquarters for oil exploration and production companies. Machine tools, electric motors, ball bearings, instruments, and che... Read more
Otto Wagner
Otto Wagner , 1841-1918, Austrian architect. A structural rationalism was exhibited in his stations for the Vienna city railroad, built in the 1890s. His later works, showing an individual and monumental style, include the Vienna Postal Savings Building and the Steinhof Church (1906). He became a pr... Read more
John Jay Chapman
John Jay Chapman 1862-1933, American essayist and poet, b. New York City, grad. Harvard, 1885. He was admitted to the bar in 1888, but after 10 years abandoned law for literature. Active in the anti-Tammany reform movement in the 1890s, Chapman was an active supporter of civil rights, and a fiery a... Read more
Minnie Maddern Fiske
Minnie Maddern Fiske 1865-1932, American actress, b. New Orleans. Born of a family of actors, she spent her childhood on the stage. In 1890 she married Harrison Grey Fiske, editor of the New York Dramatic Mirror, appearing thereafter under his management. Her roles in A Doll's House (1894) and ... Read more

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Modernism
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...influence on the British Decadent poets of the 1890s, Wilde , Dowson , Arthur Symons , L...Realistic fiction writers from the late 1890s to the Edwardian period wrote about modern...experimental in language. But in the late 1890s the novels of H. James signalled a new...
Populist Era
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...Era is no exception. The events of the 1890s—the time period known as the...against striking workers. The Economy. The 1890s was a decade of depression, unemployment...deprivation exacerbated by drought in the 1890s. Indeed, the rural South experienced...
Football
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...over thirty thousand fans by the early 1890s. Camp was responsible for most major rules...masculinity, the violent mass plays of the 1890s helped observers identify football as a...western universities adopted the sport in the 1890s to gain recognition. Pressures to win...
Nationalist Party
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History ...itself over‐shadowed during the 1890s by the anti‐Parnellite Irish...T. P. O'Connor . Except during the 1890s, party funds raised from the Irish abroad...serious evidence that the futility of the 1890s Parnellite split did the party long...
Economy, Tsarist
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...Spurts of rapid industrialization in the 1890s and in the years before World War I created...Industrialization accelerated in the 1890s, pushed forward by extensive state intervention...of the war. The rate of growth in the 1890s is estimated to have been an impressive...
Makarov, Stepan Osipovich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...with the Baltic Fleet during the early 1890s, and was inspector of naval artillery from 1891 to 1894. During the mid-1890s Makarov completed another round-the...mine warfare at sea. During the late 1890s he directed the construction of the...
Populist Movement
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History ...30 cents a pound in 1866. By the early 1890s, however, the price per pound plummeted...prejudiced, and superstitious. Before the 1890s rural distress had generated demands for...wave of populist reformism emerged in the 1890s. Various regional farm groups, known...
Ragtime
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...Era created a synthesis that by the early 1890s came to define a distinct style. Drawing...harmony) pulse. By the mid‐1890s, such rhythms were being applied to both...beginning with the Cakewalk fad of the 1890s, the association of ragtime with new forms...
Jacob Sechler Coxey
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...distressed by the economic depression of the 1890s and impelled by the era's reform ideas...candidate for the Ohio Senate in 1885. By the 1890s he was a Populist. In 1894, when he burst...propagandized were in the air during the 1890s. Coxey's contribution was to synthesize...
Circuses
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...resemblance to the sprawling three‐ring circus of the 1890s; they had no parade, nor did they perform in canvas tents...of track, Gilded Age railroad circuses grew rapidly. By the 1890s, many proprietors had adopted from other popular amusement...

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Cereals, Manufacture of
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Company (abbreviated Nabisco). In the 1890s, William H. Danforth took over the Robinson...whole wheat cereal for people. By the 1890s cereal grains were touted as foods that...form Ralston-Purina, which during the 1890s was an outlet for introducing Americans...
Marketing
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...the crisis, and the depression of the 1890s, when the chaos of market competition...Machine from the 1860s, Coca-Cola from the 1890s, Wrigley's Chewing Gum after 1907...sales. Further developments came after the 1890s with flashing electric signs, and in 1912...
College Athletics
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Thanksgiving Day football games of the 1890s, each of which drew between thirty and...greater rationalization of athletics. In the 1890s, the Dartmouth College Board of Trustees...organization it thrived. Finally, the 1880s and 1890s also saw several movements for interinstitutional...
Vallotton, Félix
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...illustrations for popular journals to earn a living, and in the 1890s he worked a good deal in woodcut; apart from Gauguin , he was...pattern. He was a friend of Bonnard and Vuillard and in the 1890s he sometimes exhibited with their Symbolist group the Nabis...
Forestry
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...resources dates back to the colonial period, it was not until the 1890s that forestry came into its own in the United States. The development...employment as a professional forester upon his return in the 1890s, and took a job managing the forests of Biltmore, the Vanderbilt...
Railroad Rate Law
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...the ICC effectively to freeze rates at levels pervasive in the 1890s throughout the great inflation of the Progressive era, despite...60 percent, thereby returning them to about the level of the 1890s in real dollars. Meanwhile, in the Shreveport case (1914...
Social Darwinism
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...two types of Social Darwinism emerged. First, until the 1890s, defenders of laissez-faire capitalism argued that in business...cooperation. A generation of sociologists followed Ward, and by the 1890s, Edward A. Ross had articulated the image of society as a...
Social Gospel
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...factory inspections, and consumer protection. By the mid-1890s, the social gospel had the support of multiple denominations...Religions at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Beginning in the 1890s, some social gospel ministers, including Gladden, traveled...
Socialist Movement
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...more democratic, feminist, working-class outlook in the 1890s. Socialism at Its Peak The socialist movement reached its height...Socialist Labor Party (SLP), founded in 1877. Led in the 1890s by Daniel De Leon, the SLP became increasingly sectarian and...
Surplus, Federal
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...eventually ended due to the nation's economic woes, which in the 1890s were much worse than anything the country had experienced before...from the $2.8 billion that existed in 1866. Spending in the 1890s on the Spanish American War and veterans pension legislation...

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scene
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...position, point, spot; locale, setting, whereabouts; technical locus.   2. the scene is Montreal, in the late 1890s synonyms : background, setting, context, milieu, backdrop, mise en scène.   3. terrible scenes of violence...

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PANIC OF 1890S: FRANK LESSIONS FOR NOV. 5, SUBJECT FOR, NOV 7, AT FRANK HOUSE
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 11/5/2009; 500 words ; ...following news release: "The Panic of the 1890s: Frank Lessons for Today" will feature...global economic environment with that of the 1890s to see what lessons can be borrowed from...will include the Franks, Kearney in the 1890s, and the social, political, financial...
H. W. Brands. The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Teaching History: A Journal of Methods; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s. Chicago & London: University of...According to H. W. Brands, Americans in the 1890s, like their descendants a hundred years...rather old-fashioned synthesis of the 1890s zeroes in on national and overseas expansion...
Feminism, mateship and brotherhood in 1890s Adelaide.
Magazine article from: History Australia; 6/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...however, I show that radicals in early 1890s Adelaide tried to give 'mateship' and...re used to thinking of mateship in the 1890s as both a masculinist and nationalist concept...socialists in Adelaide during the early 1890s. I'm interested in it firstly because...
Primitive modernity: H. G. Wells and the prehistoric man of the 1890s.(Herbert George Wells, Edward Clodd)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...anthropological and sociological thinking in the 1890s, and to see this as part of a cultural...society. Most readings of Wells in the 1890s tend to foreground his scientific and prophetic...needs to be seen as the culmination of his 1890s researches into primitivism, which led...
Unearthed 1890s exams reflect changes in education
News Wire article from: University Wire; 8/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...entrance examinations dating back to the 1890s. Each exam is roughly 20 pages in length...were several entrance exams from the 1890s. The examination from 1892 asks for translations...review by an admissions committee. In the 1890s, Kimball said, the only way for a student...
The 1890s crisis in context: The pullman strike, labor politics and the new liberalism
Magazine article from: Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society; 10/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s: Essays on Labor and Politics (Urbana...49.95; paper, $21.95.) The 1890s have long been considered one of the critical...The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s: Essays on Labor and Politics, is an...
The 1890s in America; documenting the maturation of a nation.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2006; 528 words ; 0773459820 The 1890s in America; documenting the maturation...selection of published documents from the 1890s, Schlup (independent scholar) and Paschen...toward national considerations in the early 1890s, when the essays address domestic conflict...
`Prints' from the 1890s show artistic reform.(Arts & Entertainment)(Art)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 10/21/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...exhibit "Prints Abound: Paris in the 1890s From the Collections of Virginia and Ira...Nabis artists. Active in France in the 1890s, the Nabis included Edouard Vuillard...decided to focus on works-on-paper of the 1890s. The collection will not belong to the...
Quarrels and coteries in the 1890s.(England)
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...and some of its leading figures in the 1890s, including Yeats and the Rhymers' Club...house in London in the late 1880s and early 1890s fell flat. George Bernard Shaw described...indicated, the traditional reading of the 1890s in terms of a clash between the decadents...
'THE PANIC OF THE 1890S: A FRANK LESSON FOR TODAY' PANEL SET AT UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-KEARNEY FRANK HOUSE
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 11/7/2008; 487 words ; ...following news release: "The Panic of the 1890s: A Frank Lesson for Today" will be the...to lose everything in the panic of the 1890s," said KrisAnn Sullivan, director of...discussion. "The financial lessons from the 1890s will be compared and contrasted to the...