Portrait of a City: Lincoln, Nebraska, at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

by Bruce F. Pauley

Once just a scattering of houses on the open prairie, by the late nineteenth century the city of Lincoln, Nebraska, had evolved into a modern metropolis. The changes ushered in by the Industrial Revolution and an increase in machine labor affected all aspects of daily life--housework, transportation, education, entertainment, fashion, and medicine--changing lives drastically in little more than a single generation. Lincolnites moved beyond simply...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149623412X
• ISBN13: 9781496234124
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"