Turn-of-the-Century Child
Holidays, Excursions and Trips

General References

• "Getting Around." Centenarians ed. Bernard Edelman.  New York: Farrar, 1999.
  
  
• Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village. Travel Literature. Pic of the Month.  (August 1996).
  [http://www.hfmgv.org/histories/pic/96.aug.html]

Holidays and Occasions

Is it a national holiday or cultural celebration?

• Appelbaum, Diana Karter. Thanksgiving; An American Holiday, an American History.  New York: Facts on File, 1984. 217-231.
  
  
• U.S. Department of Labor.  "The History of Labor Day"
  [http://www.dol.gov/dol/opa/public/aboutdol/laborday.htm]
  
  
• Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village.Valentine Postcard.  Pic of the Month (February 1996)
  
  
• Research ethnic or religious holidays like Cinco de Mayo, Chinese New Year, Christmas and Hanukkah.
  
  
• Read Entertaining at Glenmont (Edison's home)
  [http://www.nps.gov/edis/entglen.htm]
  
  
• Read this exerpt from the story An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving by Louisa May Alcott, 1881.

Destinations

Are you going to a world's fair or an amusement park?

• See  The Panama Pacific International Exposition
  [http://www.meow.com/ppie/panamapacific.html]
  
• Rydell, Robert W. World of Fairs; The Century-of-Progress Expositions Chicago, IL: U of Chicago Press, 1993.
  
• Look up likely places for excursions (e.g."Beaches"and "Amusement Parks") in the Events Pathfinder Index in American Memory.
  [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/topics.html]
  
  
• Read about Coney Island amusement park 
  [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/coney/filmmore/index.html]
  

Do you want to do something outdoors?  In a wilderness area, the desert or the Grand Canyon?

• Browse the subject index for outdoors activities(e.g."camping," "fishing," "picnics") in The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920
  [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amrvhtml/conshome.html]
  
• Click on a state or search for a city or county in American Environmental Photographs 1891-1936 [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/icuhtml/aephome.html]
  
• Search for images or maps in Mapping the National Parks, a collection that documents the history, cultural aspects and geological formations of areas that eventually became the National Parks (Acadia, Grand Canyon, Great Smoky Mountains and Yellowstone).

Are you coming to the United States as an  immigrant?

• See Turn-of-the-Century Child: Individuals and Groups
• See Palmer List of Merchant Vessels to identify a date and picture of the ship you came on.

Are you leaving to see the world? 

• Browse Around the World in the 1890s: Photographs from the World's Transportation Commission, 1894-1896
  [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wtc/wtchome.html]
  

Transportation

Plan the route and method of transportation

• Transportation and Communication Maps
  [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/trnshome.html}
  Includes transportation and communication systems on the national, state, and local level (e.g. canal and river systems, cycling routes, railway lines and systems, roads and road networks, and traffic patterns).
• Railroad Maps, 1828-1900
  [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrhome.html]
  These railroad maps for every state can be searched by geographic region

• Dreiser, Theodore.  A Hoosier Holiday.  Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1916
  An account of a trip in 1915 when author Theodore Dreiser drive from New York City to Indiana with his friend, illustrator Franklin Booth.  The first automobile touring book with travel advice about roads, restaurants, and places to sleep.
  
  
• The Impact of the Automobile on American Life
  
  
• "Automobiles" in the American Memory collections
  [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/keywords/automobi.html]
  
  
• "The Auto Industry's Family Trees."  Rearview Mirror.  Detroit News Archive.
  [http://detnews.com/history/pioneer/pioneer.htm]
  
  
• "Born in Fire - The Curved - Dash Olds."  Rearview Mirror.  Detroit News Archive
  [http://detnews.com/history/olds/olds.htm]
  
  
• EyeWitness: Early Adventures With The Automobile
  [http://www.ibiscom.com/20frm.htm]
  
  
• Early San Francisco Automobile History.  Museum of the City of San Francisco.
  [http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist/autos.html]
  
  
• 1899 Locomobile Steam Runabout Rearview Mirror.  Detroit News Archive
  [http://www.hfmgv.org/histories/pic/97.sep.html]
  The best-selling car of 1901.
  
  
• Ford Motor Company Chronology
  [http://www.hfmgv.org/histories/fmc/fmc.chrono.html]
  
  
• MotorCrafts Timeline of Automotive History
  [http://www.motorcraft.com/History/index.shtml]
  
  
• "The Model T."  Showroom of Automotive History.
  [http://www.hfmgv.org/histories/showroom/1908/model.t.html]
  
  
• WebINK  Exhibit of Historic Cars. Sloan Museum, Flint Michigan.
  [http://www.ipl.org/webink/sloan/sloan.html]