The 1880s
The 1880s
Opening montage: U.S. minted Morgan silver dollar coin dated 1881, "E Plurbis Unim"; three gas street lamps lit at night; stone façade above intricately designed door frame dated 1882; early incandescent light bulb turning on; Tintype photograph of adult Caucasian woman standing next to Caucasian female child sitting on wooden railing, Caucasian male child standing next to her; adult Caucasian hands holding early Kodak camera, rod pulled out; three adult Caucasian women wearing long, casual floral dresses, slinging parasols while singing on theatrical stage; low angle shot of upper portion of the Statue of Liberty; low angle zoom in of Brooklyn Bridge; tip of Washington Monument in silhouette, sun partially obscured by obelisk; U.S. Capitol Building, framed by leaves, branches; cornice molding atop brick building, dated 1884; panning decorative white railing; gazebo surrounded by bushes; one-room schoolhouse on open land, barren tree to the side; line of medical syrups, oils for medical cures on shelf; bronze statue of Native American adult male; buffalo briefly rolling in dry tallgrass; buffalo herd; Texas longhorn steers galloping toward camera.
The 1880s
Continued opening montage: cornice molding on top of a brick building, dated 1885; standing ornamental wind mill spinning in a field, tress in BG; lumber mill with forest and mountains in BG; "O.K. Corral Feed & Livery Stable"; zoom in to purple grapes growing on vine; cornice molding on top of a stone building, dated 1887; overview of steam engine locomotive train traveling past green brush and river; adult Caucasian male driving antique Yale Bowl trolley. Horse carriage being driven by adult Caucasian male and an adult Caucasian female passenger holding parasol; opening credits superimposed. Overview of a farm with cows grazing and crops, smoke from a passing locomotive billowing; title and copyright superimposed.
The 1880s - Immigrants and Immigration
POV from inside house, through window to fenced farmland, houses in distance. Pan to red barn. Two dairy cows resting in barn. Archival still of adult Caucasian male and female immigrants on ship with male children. Archival still of adult Caucasian male and female immigrants sitting on ship deck. VS Statue of Liberty intercut with still and illustrations of immigrants on ship deck, steamboats sailing during dedication ceremony, 1886. Archival stills of immigrants crowding streets, laundry hanging out to dry from tenements in Lower East Manhattan. Sailboat on water. Illustrated cover of "A New York Boy" by Horatio Alger, Jr. Archival still of adult Caucasian male reading "Success" magazine. Archival still of Alexander Graham Bell using telephone. Archival still of Andrew Carnegie posing in library. Archival still of John D. Rockefeller. Pan from reflection of old oil well & scaffold in field to actual item. Archival still of wealthy adult Caucasian males wearing tuxedos, dining.
The 1880s - Transportation
VS of steam locomotive traveling through countryside, across steel trestle river bridge; overview of vast green landscape as the train passes through. Map of U.S. time zones. Panning view of hilly forested landscape; white smoke puffing from locomotive seen as it appears on top of a hill in the distance. POV from locomotive cab looking back to the smokestack and passenger cars. Steam pouring from wheels of old Ammonoosuc locomotive; two adult Caucasian male engineers in the cab, one shoveling coal. POV of train traveling along old railroad tracks, crossing wooden bridge. Fog rolling across terrain near Mount Washington. Ammonoosuc locomotive and passenger car idle. Steam locomotive traveling through bottom of mountain valley. Steam locomotive traveling along mountainside. Panning view of mountain valley; small, old wood shack in FG. Adult Caucasian male chiseling away at rocks. Group of adult Caucasian males entering old silver mine. Archival still of Colorado storekeeper Horace Taber. Scaffold of old silver mine at Matchless Mine. Archival still of Baby Doe Taber. Red tulips blooming, tilt up to U.S. Capitol Dome. Archival still of Baby Doe Taber walking out of a cabin at Matchless Mine.
The 1880s - Engineering Marvels
Tilt down to Mesa Verde ruins near Cortes, Colorado. VS of Pueblo cliff dwellings. Illustration of celebration of the Brooklyn Bridge completion in 1883. Illustrations of Brooklyn Bridge construction. Illustration of Brooklyn Bridge towering above urban landscape. Illustration of adult Caucasian males standing on bridge during dedication ceremony; suspension tower in BG. VS of suspension tower, cables of Brooklyn Bridge. Tip of Washington Monument; sun behind wispy clouds in BG. Archival still of a paper pamphlet asking for donations to the monument that will be dedicated to George Washington. Archival still of Washington Monument under construction. Panning up Washington Monument to the tip of obelisk. Washington Monument rising above trees.
The 1880s - Politics
Painting of U.S. President James Garfield. Illustrations of the assassination, medical examination, and death of President Garfield. Painting of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur. Political cartoons commentating on President Arthur's support of the Pendleton Act. Painting of U.S. President Grover Cleveland. Political cartoon of President-Elect Cleveland trying to steer a course between office seekers and potential mothers-in-law. Tail end of U.S silver dollar coin. South Lawn, Portico of White House; fountain in FG. East Front of the U.S. Capitol Building; Capitol Dome in BG. Vintage two and three cent stamps on envelopes. Illustration of President Cleveland marrying Frances Folsom. Archival stills of First Lady Frances Folsom Cleveland. VS of Niagara Falls. 1888 Presidential campaign posters for President Cleveland & Benjamin Harrison (D-IN). Painting of U.S. President Benjamin Harrison. Illustration of adult Caucasian women standing in line at local voting station. Archival still of adult Caucasian female suffragettes holding banner: "I Wish Ma Could Vote." Archival stills of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and fellow adult Caucasian female suffragettes.
The 1880s - Oklahoma Land Rush
Political cartoon depicting a caricature of U.S. President Benjamin Harrison. Illustrations of adult Caucasian males on horseback, running to Oklahoma in land rush. Panning Oklahoma plain dotted by shrubs. Bronze statue of adult Native American male. Archival still of Chief Sitting Bull of the Lakota Sioux tribe. Archival still of Geronimo of the Apache tribe. Buffalo calf walking through tall-grass. VS of buffalo (bison) herd grazing, walking along prairie. Illustration of adult Caucasian males shooting buffalo. Adult Caucasian males on horseback leading cattle drive. Texas longhorn walk along trail, led into corral. Tilled soil of grassland. Small town church with bell tower. Barbed wire fencing. Adult Caucasian male cowboy on horseback. Archival still of Buffalo Bill Cody with Chief Sitting Bull, 1885. Antique posters (posted bills) advertising Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Steam engine locomotive traveling toward cam, whistle blowing.
The 1880s - Arts and Entertainment
Smoke rising from locomotive steam engine; locomotive is obscured behind hill. VS of locomotive steam engines traveling through plains and mountainside. Archival stills of actor and singers Edwin Booth, Lillian Russell, Sarah Bernhardt, Lily Langtry, and U.S. House Representative William Jennings Bryan (D-NE). Adult Caucasian male actors performing comedic scene from Gilbert & Sullivan's musical "HMS Pinafore". Adult Caucasian male and female actors performing musical number from "Macado". Newspaper advertisement, dated October 22nd, 1883, for "Faust" at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. Archival still of the exterior of the Met. Illustration of interior. Archival stills of small town musical bands; adult Caucasian males posing and holding trumpets, tubas, and trombones. Archival still of composer John Philip Sousa. Empty gazebo. Archival illustrations and stills of adult Caucasian women playing piano in parlors. Sheet music cover: "A Rose From my Angel Mother's Grave". Archival still of author General Lew Wallace. Illustration of a chariot race and crash from Ben Hur novel. Illustration of Mark Twain. Mark Twain's House in Hartford, Connecticut.
The 1880s - Sports
Archival paintings and illustrations of adult Caucasian men playing baseball. Archival illustration of an adult Caucasian male pitcher about to throw baseball underhand. Archival still of adult Caucasian male pitcher leaning back to throw baseball overhand. Advertisement in old home shopping catalog for baseball glove. Archival stills of adult Caucasian men using bare hands to catch baseball. Archival illustrations of adult Caucasian men playing American football. Advertisement in old shopping catalog for "foot balls". Archival stills of football teams. Archival still of adult Caucasian men playing early version of basketball. Archival still of James Naismith. River valley in Pennsylvania. VS of golf course at Foxburg Country Club. Wedge being used to chip golf ball onto the green. Golf ball being tapped into hole with early putter. Burlap bag being dragged across sand trap, smoothing tracks. Archival still & illustration of boxer John L. Sullivan. Archival still of crowd watching John L. Sullivan fight Jake Kilrain in 1889. Painting of a adult Caucasian referee waving a towel at an adult Caucasian male boxer sitting in his corner of the ring, holding on to the ropes.
The 1880s - Inventors & Entrepreneurs
Archival stills of young Thomas Alva Edison posing with phonograph. An early phonograph machine. An incandescent light bulb, lit up. Illustrations of a city being illuminated by electric lights. Illustrations of Thomas Alva Edison working in Menlo Park, New Jersey laboratory with adult Caucasian males watching. Still photo of Edison slouched in a chair, phonograph on the table in front of him. Exterior of Thomas Alva Edison's laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey. Interior of Thomas Alva Edison's laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey. Shelves and tables containing various vials, bottles, and other scientific equipment used for experimentation. Archival Illustration of two children, Caucasian male and female watching a circular wheel create moving images. Excellent "Galloping Horse" film by Eadweard Muybridge, 1878 (the illusion of movement). Thomas Edison's celluloid print of "Fred Ott's Sneeze". Illustration of early kinetoscope. Poster advertisement promoting Thomas Edison's new invention, the kinetoscope.
The 1880s - Inventors & Entrepreneurs
Archival still of George Eastman. Adult Caucasian man takes a photograph using an early Kodak camera, of an adult Caucasian woman standing next to her Caucasian female and male children, standing on a wooden bridge. Archival still of Eastman Dry Plate & Film Company in Rochester, New York. Still photograph of Eastman family. Archival still photo of adult Caucasian male holding a Kodak camera on a dock next to the portholes of a ship; adult Caucasian men gathered together in BG. Adult Caucasian male taking a Kodak photo of the same female and children standing together by the side of a residential house. Archival catalog advertisement for fountain pens. Archival still of six adult Caucasian workmen posing on a telephone pole. Archival still of entrepreneur Richard Warren Sears. Archival Sears catalog for pocket watches. Archival stills of U.S. Salvation Army branches, adult Caucasian males and females posing. Archival still of Red Cross founder Clara Barton. Archival illustrations depicting the massive flood disaster at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 1889; period newspaper details the Johnstown Flood; archival photos of aftermath. Another still of Clara Barton.
The 1880s - Transportation
Trolley pole rising, touching overhead cable line. Trolley pole traveling along cable line. Adult Caucasian male hand on controls of Yale Bowl trolley car traveling along track. Pan down from cable line as trolley passes; driver and passengers onboard. Adult Caucasian male and female passenger riding with children in open horse-driven carriage (re-enactment). Archival still of two adult Caucasian men riding penny-farthing bicycles. Archival still of adult Caucasian female on bicycle; three adult males surround her, holding bike steady. Archival stills of women posing with low-riding bicycles. Horses, guided by adult Caucasian males, towing the "Independence" along canal. Re-enactment of adult Caucasian males steering boat through canal, running alongside boat with rope. Thick gray smoke sifting above Holstein cows grazing in field while locomotive steam engine passes; cemetery on other side of stone wall in FG.
The 1880s - Architecture & Fashion
Tilt up stone Victorian mansion. VS Victorian residential and commercial buildings. Archival still of interior room of Victorian house. Archival still of Caucasian male and females adults and children sitting on front steps of house, wearing formal attire. Archival still of adult Caucasian male and female in Victorian bathing suits, sitting together on beach. Archival still of adult Caucasian women wearing bathing suits, posing. Archival still of well-dressed adult Caucasian male and female sitting on couch. Archival still of adult Caucasian male and female on date with male chaperone. Archival still of curly, long-haired Caucasian male toddlers wearing mini Lord Fauntleroy outfits. Archival stills of adult Caucasian women wearing tight corsets. Archival still of adult Caucasian women wearing rear bustle. Archival stills of adult Caucasian woman posing. Archival still of a group of adult Caucasian women posing together.
The 1880s - Education and Medicine
Schoolhouse on plain. VS rural schoolhouses. Archival stills and illustrations of Caucasian male and female school children, adult Caucasian female teachers, adult Caucasian male college graduate. Chopped wood stacked near tree outside cabin. Fire burning in fireplace. Smoke rising from cabin chimney. Brick outhouse behind brick schoolhouse. Interior classroom of restored one-room schoolhouse; portraits of Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln above chalkboard. Water pump; schoolhouse in BG. Antique medicine bottles and vials on shelves. Illustration of adult Caucasian male doctor riding in carriage. Archival still of adult Caucasian males performing surgery as fellow adult Caucasian males sit in gallery. Illustrations of adult Caucasian male doctor speaking with adult Caucasian female. Archival still of adult Caucasian male doctors and adult Caucasian female nurse in surgery. Sign: "1880 J.A. Merriam. City Drug Store." Int restored drugstore; antique stove in center of room. Posters for Pratt's Healing Ointment and Groves Chill Tonic.
The 1880s - Crime and the Wild West
Desert valley; array of cactus plants, mountains in BG. Saloons and restaurants in Tombstone, Arizona: "The Crystal Palace", "Lucky Cuss Saloon". "O.K. Corral Feed & Livery Stable" sign, tilt down to entrance. Illustrations of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. Gravestones for Frank McLaury, Tom McLaury, Billy Clanton; cacti in BG. Illustration of Pat Garrett shooting and killing Billy the Kid in a room; dresser in BG. Reward poster for the "arrest of express and train robbers" Frank and Jesse James. Illustration of Jesse James being shot and killed by Robert Ford while straightening a picture frame in his house. Archival still of Jesse James gang member Robert Ford posing with revolver used to kill Jesse James. Archival stills of adult Caucasian male criminal with rope noose around his neck; two adult Caucasian men guarding him. Archival still of adult Caucasian male hung from a tree; crowd of adult Caucasian men posing for camera. Archival still of two adult Caucasian males hung, dead. Two adult Caucasian males stand by executed adult Caucasian male criminal.
The 1880s - Labor Unions
Archival political cartoon depicting Union Pacific and William Vanderbilt as a bandit oppressing workers. Archival still of an adult Caucasian male sitting, dressed in a bow tie, suit, and hat, cigar in mouth. Archival still of adult Caucasian male railroad company employees. Union posters for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen. Illustrations of Haymarket Riots of 1886 in Chicago, adult Caucasian male police officer shooting at adult Caucasian male labor union organizers. Archival still of American Federation of Labor founder Samuel Gompers. Panning from cornfield to oncoming antique locomotive steam engine. Illustration of adult Caucasian males clashing around a locomotive. Various illustrations of adult Caucasian male farmers protesting and clashing with adult Caucasian male police officers and U.S. Army. Promotional poster: "Gift for the Grangers", promoting government regulations for railroads and grain storage facilities.
The 1880s
Partial sign, chiseled from stone: "...ezer Raised 1890". Geese and ducks swimming in pond with willow branches hanging overhead; foggy. Victorian house with wrap-around porch. Haystack with tilled soil in FG; red barn in BG. Small wood cabin. Southern colonial mansion; thick branches in FG. Southern colonial mansion framed by grove trees. Brick factory building. Industrial cotton spindles. Grapes growing on vine. Yellow-green oranges growing on tree. Rows of green crops. Vineyard; building with bell tower in BG and mountains in the distance. Map of the United States, green areas indicating incorporated states; new states of Washington, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota. Illustration of crowded city streets. Elegant victorian rotunda. Beautiful one-room red schoolhouse on plain; small outhouse to the side. Panning view of plains dotted by shrubs and small trees. Locomotive steam engine and passenger cars traveling past camera; dusk.