the world in 1900

The World in 1910As seen in visual culture

American Politics

• The Frontier is “closed” as of 1893

America is a global power

Spanish American War

• Newspaper coverage• Yellow Journalism

• ““You furnish the pictures, I’ll provide the war!”— William R. Hearst

• The Yellow Kid, Hogan’s Alley

• Halftone Printing Process (invented in 1873)

Shooting Captured Insurgents", reenactment probably filmed in New Jersey. Edison films catalog description: A file of Spanish soldiers line up the Cubans against a blank wall and fire a volley. The flash of rifles and drifting smoke make a very striking picture.

• Wreckage of the Maine

Halftone printing

• Spanish American War 1898 establishes US prominence in the world (the “Rough Riders” are volunteer army)

• “A splendid little war”

• rough riders archival footage

Thomas Edison, troops marching (Spanish American war)

After the Spanish American War

• Labor Unions• Non-interventionism• Suffrage & men’s & women’s roles• Woodrow Wilson’s promise to keep US out of WWI• German subs at US shores?• Lusitantia

Unions & Labor

John Sloan cartoon for Woman’s Journal, April 1911

• George Bellows, Blessed are the Peacemakers, The Masses, 1917

• Cartoon from the New York Globe during World War I, trying to portray anti-war Wobblies (IWW) as linked to the German Kaiser

• Anti-war editorial cartoon by IWW artist

• Woman Suffrage movements in England and America

• Studies in Expression: When women are jurors, 1902

• A poem from Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times,by Alice Duer Miller, published in 1915,

Fashion in 1910

• L: McCall’s Magazine, August 1910, R: Warner’s Ad, 1910

JC Leyendecker & Men’s Fashion

• Charles Dana Gibson, The Greatest Game in the World: His Move,

• No time for politics, 1910

The Home or Street Corner for Woman? Vote No on Woman Suffrage." Tom Fleming, 1915

“The Christy Girl” (Howard Chandler Christy)

Christy, Good Housekeeping, 1912-13

• Herber Spencer, Social Darwinism, Survival of the Fittest

Nine European Sovereigns at Windsor for the funeral of King Edward VII in May of 1910, WH Downey

• Archduke Franz Ferdinand & Countess Sophie Chote, moments before assassination

A Bosnian Serb nationalist (possibly Gavrilo Princip, more likely bystander Ferdinand Behr), is captured by police and taken to the police station in Sarajevo, on June 28, 1914

• Assassination illustrated in Domenica del Corriere, Milan, 12 July 1914

• Fred Spear, artist, Enlist, 1915-16

• Herber Spencer, Social Darwinism, Survival of the Fittest