This is Who We Were: In the 1910s explores American life in the 1910s. This new series is sure to be of value as both a serious research tool for students of American history as well as an intriguing climb up America's family tree. The richly-illustrated text provides an interesting way to study a truly unique time in American history.

Table of Contents

• Essay on the 1910s
• Introduction
• Section One: Profiles
• This section contains 28 profiles of individuals and families living and working in the 1910s. It examines their lives at home, at work, and in their neighborhoods. Based upon historic materials, personal interviews, and diaries, the profiles give a sense of what it was like to live in the years 1910 to 1919.
• Russian American Steelworker in 1910
• Medical Education Reformer in 1910
• Ohio Inventor in 1911
• Filmmaker and Inventor in 1911
• High School Football Player in 1911
• Hand-Cigar Maker in 1912
• Engineer for a Textile Manufacturing Company in 1913
• Retired Automobile Company Executive in 1913
• Young Swedish Immigrant in 1913
• Professional Golfer in 1913
• Young Singer of Spirituals in 1913
• Aspiring Young Tennis Player in 1914
• Chief Surgeon and Scion of the Virginia Aristocracy in 1915
• African American U.S. Army Major in 1916
• Teacher and Americanization Advocate in 1916
• Star of the New York Metropolitan Opera in 1916
• Farm Family's First High-School Student in 1916
• Creator of the Campbell Kids in 1917
• Civilian Relief Worker in War-Torn France in 1918
• Polish War Refugee in 1918
• Young Popular Song Composer in 1918
• First-Generation Russian American Millworker in 1919
• Dress Manufacturing Company Owner in 1919
• Heiress and Minister's Wife in 1919
• Non-Commissioned Officer Serving in Russia in 1919
• Wartime Secretary for the YMCA in France in 1919
• African American Entrepreneur in 1919
• Home Builder for Out-of-Town Teachers in 1919
• Section Two: Historical Snapshots
• This section includes lists of important “firsts” for America, from technical advances and political events to new products and top selling books. Combining serious American history with fun facts, these snapshots present an easy-to-read overview of what happened in the 1910s.
• Preface
• Early 1910s
• Mid 1910s
• Late 1910s
• Section Three: Economy of the Times
• This section looks at a wide range of economic data, including food, clothing, transportation, housing and other selected prices, with reprints of actual advertisements for products and services of the time. It includes figures for the following categories, plus a valuable year-by-year listing of the value of a dollar.
• Preface
• Consumer Expeditures
• Annual Income
• Selected Prices
• Value of a Dollar Index 1860-2013
• Section Four: All Around Us—What We Saw, Wrote, Read & Listened To
• This section includes reprints of newspaper and magazine articles, speeches, and other items designed to help readers focus on what was on the minds of Americans in the 1910s. These original pieces show how popular opinion was formed, and how American life was affected.
• Preface
• “The New Foot-ball” - The Book of Foot-ball, by Walter Camp, 1910
• “The Nervous and Determined Child, Family Problems,” a letter from Mrs. C. B. H. to - The Ladies’ World, August 1910
• “Woman and the Cost of Living,” Our Editorial Forum - The Christian Herald, March 2, 1910
• Minnesota Immigration Timeline
• “Curious Paths Taken by the Immigrants, Interesting Peculiarities of Incoming Foreigners as Shown by Reports Just Released by the Government” - The New York Times, February 13, 1910
• “Auto Industry Center Is Here. Motor Car Manufacturers See New York's Approval of Their Products” - The New York Times, January 17, 1910
• New York Evening Mail, July 10, 1910
• “Milledgeville Citizens Take Part in Funeral of Aged Negress” - The Atlanta Constitution, January 12, 1910
• “Get Songs That Really Help People” Says Mr. Alexander - Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel, December 14, 1910
• “Girls’ Affairs,” an attempt to unravel some of the perplexities that come to girls in their relation to the other sex - The Ladies’ Home Journal, April 1911
• Abstract of Reports of the Immigration Commission, 1911
• “Public Shows Are Endorsed by Public Speaker, Professor Libby Approves of People Spending Time and Money for Entertainment” - The Denver Post, March 11, 1911
• “Motion Pictures of Colorado Scenes Now on Screens, First Showing in Denver Brings Cheers from Business Men” - The Denver Post, September 7, 1911
• Excerpts from Helpful Hints in English, by James C. Fernald, Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1911
• “Boy Scouting—What It Really Is,” by F. A. Crosby - The World Today, February 1911
• Domestic Labor-Saving Invention Timeline
• “A Place Where a Way Has Been Found to Cut Down Drudgery and Make Life Easy— Social Science Worked Out Practically by a Connecticut Couple” - The New York Times, May 7, 1911
• “Instructor in the Kindergarten Department of the Normal College, New York” - Munsey's Magazine, February 1911
• Conditions of Employment in the Iron and Steel Industry, 1913
• “Soccer Meeting Next Thursday” - The Atlanta Constitution, September 28, 1913
• “Sunny Weather” - The Titusville Herald (Pennsylvania), December 31, 1913
• “Chum Bob's Talk for the Fans” - Evening Independent (Massillon, Ohio), December 31, 1913
• “The Patent Cycle,” by John Boyle, Jr. - The Magazine of Wall Street, June 1913
• Booker T. Washington Quotations
• “Working Women and Wages” - The Outlook, March 29, 1913
• Letter to the Editor: “Why Girls Go Wrong, One of the Unskilled Class Tells Her Story” - The New York Times, March 13, 1913
• Letter to activist Catharine Beecher
• “Entertainment Ideas for New Year's,” by Laura A. Smith - Today's, January 1914, An Immigration Party
• “Immigrant Wage-Earners,” by Peter Roberts, 1914
• “Meeting the Child Labor Problem,” by Mabel Potter Daggett, In the Spotlight, Women and Events in the World Drama - Today's Woman, January 1914
• “Baby's Upbuilding,” by Edith V. Hart - Child Betterment, The Official Organ of the National Child Welfare League, June 1914
• Valeria Kozacka Demusz, 1975 interview
• “Nationwide Mortality Probe” - Child Betterment, June 1914
• Women in Sports Timeline
• Lyrics to “If You Don't Want My Peaches, You'd Better Stop Shaking My Tree,” by Irving Berlin, 1914
• Speech: “Traumatic Neurasthenia,” by Joseph M. Burke, M.D., Chief Surgeon of Association of Seaboard Air Line Railway Surgeons
• “Ripley Says the World as a Whole Is Getting Poorer” - The Wall Street Journal, May 22, 1915
• “Do You Know That—” - Royster's Almanac, 1915
• “Mail Order vs. Country Store” - The Wall Street Journal, May 1915
• “Women Students Spend More than Men at University of Wisconsin Despite Their Free Amusements” - The Washington Post, May 15, 1915
• The Outlook Magazine, on the Woman's Suffrage Parade down Fifth Avenue, New York, in 1915, witnessed by 250,000 people
• “Paderewski Estate Ruined, Letter to Pianist Also Tells of Starvation of Polish People” - The New York Times, October 17, 1915
• Ellis Island Inspector Helen Barr, Island of Hope, Island of Tears
• “The Darker Side of Driving,” Morrison County (Minnesota) Historical Society
• “Shoulder Socket Is All That Keeps Girl Players from Beating Men Tennis Champions” - Reno Evening Gazette (Nevada), July 5,1915
• “The New Seasons” - Croonborg's Gazette of Fashions, August 1915
• “Our Responsibility in the War” - The Christian Herald, April 7, 1915
• Letter to the Editor: “The Gary Plan: A Backward S,” by Isidore Springer, Principal, Public School 25, Brooklyn - The New York Times, January 6, 1915
• A Dutch Fork Farm Boy, a memoir by J. M. Eleazer
• Kentucky Tales
• “A Wonderful Discovery,” - The Youth's Companion, November 1, 1916
• “The Submarine Issue” - The Youth's Companion, November 16,1916
• “The Woman's Game, Tennis for Women,” Miss Molla Bjurstedt, 1916
• “Liner Cymric Is Torpedoed Off Irish Coast, Great White Star Vessel Was Bound to Liverpool from New York” - The New York Times, May 9, 1916
• “Wilson the Political Weather Vane” - The Melting Pot, May 1916
• “The Holy Inquisition in Power in Boston” - The Melting Pot, October 1916
• “Celebrating Yale” - The Youth's Companion, November 16,1916
• “New York's Fourth” - The Outlook, July 12, 1916
• “Rapid Dish Washer” - Today's Housewife, June 1917
• “Thousands of Aeroplanes to Break the Deadlock in Europe” - Current Opinion, August 1917
• “Flower of Nation's Younghood to Be Selected to Battle for Democracy, Ten Million Men Enrolled for Service” - Toledo Weekly Blade, June 14, 1917
• “What Our Red Cross Is Doing in France,” by Marion G. Scheitlin - American Review of Reviews, December 1917
• “The Greatest Woman in the Courts,” by Fred Hawthorne - Outing, October 1917
• “Million Letters in the Mails Today Bearing Magic Words ‘With the Colors,’” - The Cambridge City Tribune (Indiana), November 22, 1917
• Commercial Canning Timeline
• Food Brand and Product Introductions
• “Asks $5,000 for Red Hair. Miss Gottdank Sues When Peroxide Fails to Make Tresses Golden” - The New York Times, January 4, 1917
• “New York City in War Time,” by Arthur Hepburn - Vanity Fair, December 1917
• “The Fight against Venereal Disease” - The New Republic, November 30, 1918
• “The Business of Clothing the Army,” by Edward Hungerford - Harper's Monthly Magazine, April 1918
• “Withdraw from Russia!” - The Dial, December 14, 1918
• “Whisky Sold as Hair Tonic. Detectives in Sailors’ Uniforms Arrest Bronx Barber” - The New York Times, March 14, 1918
• “Why Should You Be Punished for Not Living in New York?” - Pictorial Review, January 1918
• “After the Christmas Dinner, Bright Things of All Times That People Have Laughed Over” - The Ladies’ Home Journal, December 1918
• Section Five: Census Data
• This section includes state-by-state comparative tables.
• Preface
• State-by-State Comparative Tables: 1910, 1920 and 2010
• Total Population
• White Population
• Black Population
• American Indian/Alaska Native Population
• Asian Population
• Foreign-Born Population
• Urban Population
• Rural Population
• Males per 100 Females
• Homeownership Rate
• Bibliography