MASS CULTURE

WHAT WAS NEW

• Art galleries
• Libraries
• Novels
• Museums
• Motion pictures
• Mass printing

MASS CIRCULATION NEWS PAPERS

• Joseph Pulitzer: owner of "New York World" in 1883, pioneered large Sunday Edition, comics, sports coverage, and women's news
• William Randolph: owner of New York's "Morning Journal"
• News papers attempted to outdo each other by using sensational headlines, etc to attract readers
• By 1898, news paper circulations reached over one million copies every day

ART GALERIES

• By 1900, there was one in almost every large city
• Thomas Eakins: embraced realism, attempted to portray life as is really was
• Ashcan school: led by Eakin's student, Robert Henri, painted urban life and working people

PUBLIC LIBRARIES

• By 1900, libraries in America numbered in the thousands
• Called the "the poor man's university"

POPULAR FICTION

• Some glorified adventure tales
• Others portrayed realistic American life
• Mark Twain: inspired young authors by writing classics of American Literature
• "The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin" was a popular novel written during this time

CHANGE IN LIFE

• Literacy rates rose
• Attempted to raise cultural standards
• Some were still excluded from cultural institutions such as African Americans