1900's Fashion | "San Francisco Graft Trial, 1907–1908"

Photographs

Date: 1907–1908

Source: Image numbers 02613, 02614, and 02617. "San Francisco Graft Trial, 1907–1908. BANK PIC 1905.0261-PIC, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley." Online Archive of California. Available online at http://findaid.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7p30102q; website home page: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ (accessed February 22, 2003).

Introduction

For most of history, there was almost equal elaboration of costume for men and women, but that changed around the 1840s. Although the reasons for this change are complex and cannot be attributed to a single event, they coincided with industrialization and the expansion of a middle class. Income and productivity, not aristocracy, was the social delineator. The businessman of the industrial...