1870s

The average since the 1870s is about 14 (which is the same as an E/P of seven percent). ❋ Unknown (1999)

There are also interesting pictures by journeymen who made a living taking these sorts of images, and several by the prolific Anonymous taken in the 1870s from the tower of the still-uncompleted Brooklyn Bridge, the highest point in the city before man achieved flight. ❋ William Meyers (2010)

He was what we might now call a public in-tellectual, though he existed long before the dreaded word “intellectual” gained currency in 1870s Europe. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Fortunata and Jacinta are two women in 1870s Madrid who both love Juanito Santa Cruz, the scion of a dynasty of clothing magnates; Fortunata is working class and bears him a child; Jacinta, his cousin, marries him by a family arrangement which becomes largely a love match. ❋ Fjm (2009)

The 1870s were the worst of times for blacks in the former Confederate states. ❋ Ricklibrarian (2006)

But she was a woman of tremendous confidence, insisted on going to college as almost all of them did, even in the 1870s, which is very early for a farm girl to insist on going to college. ❋ Unknown (2000)

To me the Russian thinkers of the 1870s were the most admirable in that sense. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Coast trainer, a leading jockey in the 1960s and '70s, and a champion horse from the 1870s are the new inductees into the National Museum of Racing's Hall of Fame. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The lack of communication technology in the 1870s was another barrier to the surveyors. ❋ Howard Ryan (2010)

The 1870s were the decade of Gladstonian reforms and of Disraeli's return to power. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But support for the Reconstruction project began to fade in the 1870s. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

Beginning in the 1870s, prostitution was hit by waves of attacks. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

* But “when it came to an end, finally in the late 1870s . . . the freed slaves found themselves abandoned by the federal government to face a system of economic peonage and legal subordination alone.” ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

At first catering to a “sporting” male subculture in the 1870s—with venues for horse racing, prizefighting, and prostitution—by the end of the nineteenth century, newly liberated working-class women made Coney Island their own. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

But the steadiest and largest pool of consumers was prostitutes, who by the 1870s made up an estimated 5 percent to 10 percent of women in American cities, or several million purchasers of birth control. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)