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### *POP*Culture: 1890

**ICONS:** Ellis Island, Chicago World Columbian Exposition, USS Maine
                          - Photographer Jacob Riis publishes  How the Other Half Lives , in 1890, documenting the horrible living conditions immigrants faced living in New York City's tenements.
                          - Wyoming and Idaho are admitted as the 43rd and 44th states in July 1890.
                          - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducts the first performance at New York's Carnegie Hall on May 5, 1891.
                          - The Ellis Island Immigration Station begins processing immigrants to the United States on January 1, 1892.
                          - More than 25 million people visit the 1893 Chicago World Columbian Exposition between May 1 and October 30, 1893.
                          - On September 20, 1893, the Duryea Brothers road-test the first-ever, American-made, gasoline-powered automobile in Springfield, Massachusetts.
                          - On August 28, 1894, Congress passes the first graduated income tax.  The U.S. Supreme Court declares the "direct tax" unconstitutional the following year.
                          - Ex-slave and civil rights advocate Frederick Douglass dies on February 20, 1895.
                          - The first U.S. Golf Open is held in Newport, RI, on October 4, 1895.
                          - The last great North American "Gold Rush" begins on April 6, 1896 when gold is discovered in the Yukon District of Canada.
                          - William McKinley is inaugurated as the 25th President of the United States on March 4, 1897.
                          - The battleship USS Maine explodes in Havana, Cuba's harbor on February 15, 1898.
                          - Fighting erupts between the United States and Philippine revolutionary forces on February 4, 1899.  The "Philippine Insurrection" would officially end on July 4, 1902.
                          - The United States annexes Hawaii on July 7, 1898.

| The 1890 Census        |   | 10 Largest Urban Places |
|------------------------|--------|-------------------------|
| 62,979,766             |
| 17.8                   | 1      | New York City, NY       | 1,515,301 |
| 25.5                   | 2      | Chicago, IL             | 1,099,850 |
| June 1                 | 3      | Philadelphia, PA        | 1,046,964 |
| 42                     | 4      | Brooklyn, NY            | 806,343 |
| $11,547,000            | 5      | St. Louis, MO           | 451,770 |
| 18.3                   | 6      | Boston, MA              | 448,477 |
| 26,408                 | 7      | Baltimore, MD           | 434,439 |
| 46,408                 | 8      | San Francisco, CA       | 298,997 |
| Robert Percival Porter | 9      | Cincinnati, OH          | 296,908 |
| 30                     | 10     | Cleveland, OH           | 261,353 |
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