LIFE 1888

Historical Highlights from 1888 :

• The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
• 23-year-old African American farmhand Amos Miller is hanged by a mob in Franklin, Tennessee.
• Eastman Kodak Company founded by George Eastman.
• The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public in D.C.
• The sorority Delta Delta Delta is founded at Boston University.
• The Washington Bridge opens to permit-holding pedestrians over the Harlem River.
• The New York Giants clinch their First National Football League Championship series.
• Harpo Marx, comedian, is born.