ITT Collection
Dublin Core
Title
ITT Collection
Subject
Images/Videos/etc
Description
This collection contains items relating to rapid urbanization in the Gilded and Progressive Era of American history.
Creator
Ian Traver
Contributor
Ian Traver
Language
English
Collection Items
Image of sketches of tenement houses
Composite of five scenes showing a slum and views of an improved apartment building with playground, clubroom, and library.
Ref.: Traffic Jam Chicago, Illinois
An image that captures a very large traffic jam in Chicago, Illinois
New York City, interior of tenement house
A photograph of the inside of a New York City tenement building
A tenement house in Mulberry Street / C.A. Vanderh[..]f. Inspection of fruit in New York markets, by order of the Board of Health / drawn by R. Lewis
![A tenement house in Mulberry Street / C.A. Vanderh[..]f. Inspection of fruit in New York markets, by order of the Board of Health / drawn by R. Lewis](https://spring23modernus.leadr.site/files/square_thumbnails/4b6fd0b387763cacedb646275eac32ea.jpg "A tenement house in Mulberry Street / C.A. Vanderh[..]f. Inspection of fruit in New York markets, by order of the Board of Health / drawn by R. Lewis")
Illustration of a New York tenement house
The Chicago Building of The Home Insurance Co. of New York
Print shows the 10-story building that is considered the world's first skyscraper. Designed by architect William LeBaron Jenney, it stood in Chicago 1885 - 1931. The print is in an original custom frame.
Industrial map of New York City : showing manufacturing industries, concentration, distribution, character / prepared by the Industrial Bureau of the Merchants' Association of New York.
Includes inset continuation map of Richmond and lists of manufacturing lines in New York City and the 5 boroughs.
1 map : col., mounted on linen 88 x 90 cm.
1 map : col., mounted on linen 88 x 90 cm.
Alexander Graham Bell Experimental Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated several experimental telephones at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876. This unit features a single electro-magnet and could be used both as transmitter and receiver. Bell approached the problem of…
