Panic of 1893
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The Panic of 1893 was an economic depression in the United States that began in 1893 and ended in 1897. It deeply affected every sector of the economy and produced political upheaval that led to the political realignment of 1896 and the presidency of William McKinley.
The pro-Republican Judge magazine blamed the Panic of 1893 on the Democratic victory in the 1892 election.
The 1896 Broadway melodrama The War of Wealth was inspired by the panic of 1893.
The Grand Central Depot was an important hub for rail transportation, a major part of the shipping industry in the late nineteenth century
Gilded Age
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In United States history, the Gilded Age is described as the period from about the 1870s to the late 1890s, which occurred between the Reconstruction Era and the Progressive Era. It was named after an 1873 Mark Twain novel by historians in the 1920s who saw this interval of economic expansion as an era of materialistic excesses combined with political corruption.
The Breakers, a Gilded Age mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, built by the wealthy Vanderbilt family of railroad tycoons
First edition cover of The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873), a collaborative novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
The celebration of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad, May 10, 1869
The Toluca Street Oil Field in Los Angeles oil district, 1900