The way life was: a photographic treasury from the American past, [electronic resource] by Chansonetta Emmons ... [et al.] Compiled and written by Jeffrey Simpson. Design and coordination: Massimo Vignelli and Gudrun Buettner.

"A Chanticleer Press edition."

Chansonetta Emmons: way down East -- Frances Benjamin Johnston: women in the mill -- Alice Austen: Victorian gentry -- Jacob Riis: how the other half lived -- The Byrons: New York's "400" -- Lewis Hine: children in bondage -- Henry Hamilton Bennett: Wisconsin Dells -- Solomon Butcher: sod houses -- L.W. Halbe: prairie village -- Joseph Pennell: prairie town -- Frances Benjamin Johnston: rural South and Tuskegee -- E.J. Bellocq: red-light district -- Erwin Smith: the cowboy -- Adam Vroman: the Indian -- Edward Curtis: the Indian on horseback -- Arnold Genthe: Chinatown -- Darius Kinsey: in the big woods.