By the summer of 1850, various versions of a short skirt and trousers, or Turkish dress, were being worn by readers of the Water-Cure Journal as well as women patients at the nationâs health resorts. After wearing the style in private, some began wearing it in public.
Lesson Plans. 1. The Brooklyn Bridge, constructed between 1869-1883, is a symbol of late 19th-century innovation and progress. It was the first suspension bridge to use steel for its cable wire and the first to use pneumatic caissons.
On Staten Island, which saw rapid development after the bridge opened in 1964, it joins the Staten Island Expressway, providing access to the many communities in this most rural of the city's five boroughs.