The Gilded Age Images
Crazy Charlie
Charles Guiteau, the man who assassinated President James Garfield.
Iron Man of the Steel Industry
Henry Frick, plant manager of the Homestead Steel Plant.
Paradise or Prison?
George Pullman's company town, designed to be an idyllic answer to labor discontent, left many Pullman employees resentful of GP's "industrial paternalism."
Pullman Strike
Pullman workers walk off the job in protest to company policies in 1894.
My Pa's Gone to the White House
Political carton lampooning Grover Cleveland sexual indiscretions, 1884.
Prairie Grass Roots Politics
Farmers gather for a Populist Party Convention in Nebraska, 1890
The "Strenuous Life"
Theodore Roosevelt, living in the Dakota Territory in 1885, the year after his wife died.
The Father of American Football
Walter camp, Yale's innovative coach, during his playing days.
Oil Czar
John Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil, in 1885.
The New American Statesman
George Washington Plunkitt of Tammany Hall.