Recreation, Illness, and Mass Culture

HIST 1234

October 29, 2014

The 1918 Influenza epidemic

Camp Funston, Kansas

Mentions of influenza in Newspapers

Flu Workers in St Louis.

Newspaper Coverage

The divide in culture.

An urban country

Symphony Hall, Boston

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

MFA, Appeal to the Great Spirit

Mass Recreation

Modern Times

Wanamaker's

Marie Dressler

Marie Dressler

New York nickelodeon, 1908

Movie theater as child care

Eva Tanguay

"The Most Famous Colored Woman in the World"

Baseball Stadiums

1911 photograph w/ Huntington in the foreground

Jack Johnson

Mass Media

Edison Cylinder

Edison Phonograph

Three recordings