• The practice of commemorating the fiftieth and hundredth anniversaries of notable persons and events also dates from the late nineteenth century.

    NEWYORKER: Glory Days

  • Carharrt, the workwear apparel brand, was founded in Detroit, Michigan in the late nineteenth century and originally made rugged clothing for railroad workers.

    FORBES: Carharrt x Chrysler: Imported From Detroit

  • The late nineteenth century was an inventive time for tradition-making.

    NEWYORKER: Glory Days

  • Leland Stanford was a Republican governor and senator in the late nineteenth century, who made a fortune from the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads, which he had helped to found.

    NEWYORKER: Get Rich U.

  • This one laid the blame for the migrants' deprivation at the door of California agriculture, an industry that since the late nineteenth century had been defined by one main thing: its enormity.

    NPR: 'Grapes Of Wrath' And The Politics of Book Burning

  • The site has been under excavation since the late nineteenth century, so that all of its surviving monuments have been unearthed and to some extent restored, though its ancient harbor, the Lion Port, has long been silted up, leaving Miletus marooned miles from the sea.

    WSJ: 'Aladdin's Lamp'

  • The setting is a cramped, chilly room off a desolate courtyard, sometime in the late nineteenth century, where a poor, elderly couple, Gebo (Michael Lonsdale) and Doroteia (Claudia Cardinale), are haunted by the eight-year absence of their prodigal son, whose wife, Sofia (Leonor Silveira), they have taken in.

    NEWYORKER: Gebo and the Shadow

  • As expected, an impressive array of prominent sports franchise owners, distinguished baseball executives, titans of business, and even former ball players are expected to aggressively pursue a franchise whose origins date back to the late nineteenth century and well before Brooklyn was even a borough of New York City.

    FORBES: Dodgers' Path To A New Owner Begins With Character And Integrity

  • He studied architecture in Europe, late in the nineteenth century, then returned to his native New York and made a small fortune developing new neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens.

    NEWYORKER: Brooklyn Circle

  • Most of the structures on Oxford Street, for example, were built in the mid-nineteenth century, but after World War II bombings, some had to be rebuilt in the late twentieth century.

    FORBES: Connect

  • There is such a thing as good deflation and, in mirroring late nineteenth century America, the experience of Japan is the authentic modern manifestation of the phenomenon.

    FORBES: Is the Bank of Japan Really Easing -- Or Does It Just Want to Depreciate the Yen?

  • It had been a late-nineteenth-century spa, rebuilt, after Roosevelt purchased the old Meriwether Inn and grounds, with low white buildings in wings around a grassy courtyard with walkways, some covered like porticoes.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Warm Springs'

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