[timeline_event category=”Social & Urban History” title=”Decade at a Glance” layout=”true” images=”2058″]The 1910 census counted 92,407,000 Americans. One in 1000 marriages ended in divorce. The average worker earned $75 per year while a Ziegfield showgirl on Broadway earned $75 per week. Corrine Griffith, a future Paul R. Williams client, is pictured here as an early Ziegfield showgirl.

As industry expanded, 2.1 million American workers joined unions and participated in 1,204 labor strikes across the country. There was much social and labor unrest.

Movies become popular. Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Pearl White were America’s favorite movie stars.[/timeline_event]