Indeed. Also, I believe President of the USA was Taft (the fattest president in US history). Yes, even more overweight than Trump. So fat, that there was a story about him getting stuck in the bathtub!
Life expectancy was around 50. Horse manure everywhere. No civil or women rights, high infant mortality. Many things were either not invented or not widely used: toothpaste; indoor hot water; refrigerators; shampoo; cars; toilet paper; penicillin, birth control was illegal even for married couples.
Brooklyn and Queens were mainly farmland.
I wouldn't mind visiting for a day or two. But, I wouldn't want to live in that time.
Me too. Really no toilet paper? What did they use? What did they use for toothpaste? No antibiotics? I wonder what people did when they had dental pain. Probably no root canals back then.
I used to ask my relative who lived close to that time a zillion questions.
Salt was used to clean teeth. Some of my relatives (including small children) died back then from illnesses which would've been easily treated with antibiotics today.
I read bad teeth was very common, but my relatives had good teeth maybe because they ate less sugar. Today, it's in everything. Pull the tooth instead of root canal? My relative swore people used corncobs and newspaper. The majority of people didn't own cars. They used horse drawn carriages, trolleys, the subway, and walking.
Now I understand why my father was big on dental hygiene. Perhaps he was traumatized by gory dental stories from his parents. He never had a cavity until he was very old.