Life in 1900: How People Dressed, Cooked & Thrived Amid Growth
Introduction – Stepping Into the Past Life in 1900 smells faintly of coal smoke and freshly baked bread.Your shoes click on uneven cobblestones as a horse-drawn carriage rattles past.It’s a world balancing tradition and change. Approximately 1.65 billion people live on Earth, which is a small portion of the current 8 billion.Cities hum with the noise of factories, while vast countryside stretches untouched.Electric lights flicker in some streets, but oil lamps…