Quotes About 1890

in 1890, of Jacob A. Riis's How the Other Half Lives. A pioneering urban journalist, Riis, himself an immigrant from Denmark, had taken powerful photographs of tenement life.

San Francisco in 1890 might have seemed barely more saloon-sodden than that, reporting one for every 96 residents—but this was a measure only of the city's 3,000 licensed establishments, while less restrictive estimates threw in an additional 2,000 unlicensed places.

It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken away by legislation of 1890.

On introducing his antitrust bill in 1890, Republican senator John Sherman of Ohio thundered, "If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessaries of life." Sherman's

The 1880 census had taken eight years to tabulate. But in 1890, the Census Bureau's Herman Hollerith, an engineer from Buffalo, New York, who'd taught mechanical engineering at MIT, introduced a reform that allowed for the census to be tallied in just a year.

This was, after all, New Orleans in 1890- the Crescent City of the Gilded Age, where aliases of convenience and unconventional living arrangements were anything but out of the ordinary, at least in certain parts of town. Identities were fluid here, and names and appearances weren't always the best guide to telling who was who.

Indeed, one turns over Miss Dickinson's book with a puzzled feeling that there was poetry in her subconscious, but that it never became explicit.

what the Kansas City Star said in 1890: "When a Kansas man orders a 'Joe Rickey' he instructs the barkeeper to leave out the ice, the lime juice and the soda.