Chester Alan Arthur, Twenty-first U.S. President
(1881-1885)
Native Americans 1881-86:
War between U.S. and Apaches (Great Plains)
Viola, Herman I, North American Indians, Crown Publishers, New York: New York, 1996
Technology:
Northern Pacific Railroad,
1883 - The Northern Pacific Railroad completed, bringing tourists to
Yellowstone.
Brooklyn Bridge
April: Trusswork, roadway, and promenade are completed.
May 24: Brooklyn Bridge is opened after 14 years of construction.
One week later thousands of sightseers panic when someone yells "the bridge is falling" and
12 people are crushed to death.
It's magnificent twin towers, breathtaking span, cutting edge
technology, and sheer beauty make Brooklyn Bridge the grandest,
and perhaps the most important structure built in America during
the nineteenth century. It was called "the eighth wonder of the
world."
Curlee, Lynn Brooklyn Bridge New York: Atheneum Books, 2001.
World Fair celebrating colonies and export
trade
Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1883
(1 May - 31 October)
Location: the Museumplein (54.3
acres)
Architectural Wonder: colonial pavilion was a rectangular
main building over a canal with two 82-foot high towers on each end
and a huge, drooping canvas suspended between the towers to resemble
a cashmere shawl from the Orient. Decorations evoked colonial
outposts.
Visitors: 1.4
million
Novelties: colonial village with indigenouos peoples
Mattie, Erik World's Fairs Princeton Architectural Press, 1998, New York: New York.
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