Key events that shaped law and culture:
| Tickertape parade for New Yorker Gertrude Ederle, first woman to swim the English Channel (1926) - courtesy Wikimedia Commons Rural health nurse, upstate New York, early 1900s - courtesy New York Public Library Paterson, New Jersey silk workers strike (1913) - courtesy Wikimedia Commons Philadelphia Athletics baseball at Shibe Park (1910) - courtesy Wikimedia Commons |