City Life In The 1900s

In his 1890 novel Caesar’s Column, Ignatius Donnelly presents his futuristic vision of New York City set in the year 1988. Though Donnelly’s novel describes a time one hundred years into the future, it was written during a period of great change in America as achievements in technology, industrialization, and an expanding population led to the growth of the American city and provided new challenges for living and working.

http://www.archives.gov/research/american-cities/

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/skyscraperhistory.html

http://www.livingcityarchive.org/htm/framesets/decades/fs_00s.htm