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Chicago had a well developed street system in 1900, but traffic conditions were very different. In 1900 there were the city's 1.6 million pedestrians, a large number of bicycles and pushcarts, probably less than 50,000 horsedrawn vehicles, 377 registered automobiles and a very few riding horses. By way of comparison, today in Chicago there are approximately 5600 motor vehicles per square mile, and one vehicle for every two people. Assuming that in 1900 that vehicles were concentrated in Chicago’s densely populated central area, horsedrawn vehicle concentrations would have been about 1200 per square mile and one vehicle for every 30 people.
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Buildings of these various types from 1900 and before are still frequently found in Chicago. Much of Chicago’s oldest housing—prefire wooden buildings in the tenement areas of 1900—has been lost to obsolescence or the 20th century’s urban renewal programs, but the Chicago Historic Resources Survey still lists the locations of a number of 19th Century workingman’s cottages, and large blocky frame buildings reminiscent of the turn of the century tenements can still be found near a number of industrial areas.
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Dramatic changes in farming occurred between 1850 and 1900. The end of the Civil War led into the Industrial Revolution, and changes resulted throughout the barnyard. Instead of performing field work by hand, farmers used modern machinery to cut hay, plant corn, and bind oats. Inside the farm kitchen, the wood-burning cook stove and the Mason jar made food preparation and preservation much easier.
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Chicago’s reputation in the medical field was growing in 1900. Its public and private hospitals and clinics, medical schools and societies attracted the attention of health specialists in the U.S. and Europe. There were over 1,200 physicians practicing medicine in the city in 1890, the majority as general practitioners, although surgeons and specialists were becoming increasingly numerous and prominent.
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The inaugural online presentation of the Aaron Copland Collection at the Library of Congress celebrates the centennial of the birth of the American composer Aaron Copland (1900-1990). The multiformat Aaron Copland Collection from which the online collection derives spans the years 1910 to 1990 and includes approximately 400,000 items documenting the multifaceted life of an extraordinary person who was composer, performer, teacher, writer, conductor, commentator, and administrator. It comprises both manuscript and printed music, personal and business correspondence, diaries, writings, scrapbooks, programs, newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, awards, books, sound recordings, and motion pictures.
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The Assistant Commissioner’s report was echoed in 1900 by investigators for the City Homes Association. The same conditions would be investigated in 1903 as contributing factors in the epidemic of typhoid fever that broke out in 1902. Until some of the underlying problems connected with building ownership and inspections were addressed the poorer areas of the City continued to deteriorate and the general health of its residents remained precarious.
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