This collection of short autobiographies, compiled and edited by
Hamilton Holt, offers eye-opening accounts of how ordinary
Americans lived and worked at the turn of the 20th century. The
contributors to this collection were anonymous, drawn from various
vocations of American society. The occupations range from laborers
to dressmakers to domestic servants to peddlars and bootblacks. A
minority of the accounts are dictated, but the bulk are written or
edited from manuscripts solicited by the original publisher. We
witness a society which had, owing to decades of immigration from
around the world, become industrious and diverse. Several
contributors to this collection are first generation immigrants;
for many the conditions of the United States at the time were
jarringly different. Some yearn for their homelands, and for the
comforts and customs which they left behind, while others openly
admire the attitude and values of the country they have come to
call home.
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