Between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, American culture drastically shifted from a Victorian style culture to becoming a more cultured and modernist society. With the new approaching shifts in American society, new outlets for entertainment became very dominant during this time as the American lifestyle started to become more laid back by balancing the life at work with leisure time and entertainment started to take many forms and would all of these different forms of entertainment would become topic of interest amongst the American people. From the introduction of National sports such as Baseball and Football to new technologies such as the radio for people to enjoy their free time listening to any kinds of content presented by these innovational machinery, the rise of advanced entertainment would become a huge factor in changing the lives of Americans on what they do on their free time but also would be one of the major influences on defining the American culture in the early 20th century and in modern American culture overall. These exhibits will display and explore some of the major forms of entertainment that was invented during the late 1800's and early 1900's and their overall effect they had on American culture and the new approaching lifestyle.
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Christian Anovert