Documents in Year 1910                     

Links of Interest:

• William Howard Taft, Twenty-seventh U.S. President

(1909-1913)

• U.S. Census Overview 1910

• U.S. Census Fast Facts 1910

• Edward S. Curtis

(American Photographer of Native Americans 1899-1929)

• Lewis W. Hine

(American Photographer of Child Labor in America 1908-1912)

• Glacier National Park Created

PBS Timeline

• Automobiles becoming popular. President William Howard Taft was the first President to have a car at the White House.

• President William Howard Taft started the tradition of throwing out the first ball at the beginning of the Major League Baseball season. Presidents have done that ever since.

• Gas ranges begin to phase out coal, wood and petroleum stoves. Kitchen cabinets appear; pantries begin to disappear. Hawaii pineapple growers begin canning pineapple and shipping it to the U.S.
  Anderson, Jean American Century Cookbook. p 57 & 65