You can see it in the artistic depictions.

The experiences of children and youth underwent profound change from the 19th century to the end of the 20th century.
There were no cars. Zelizer begins her book by describing the transition from a child's insignificance throughout time to a sanctified view of children that began in Europe and America throughout the 19th century… Systematic study of larger groups of children began toward the end of the 19th century. This video is unavailable. Most children learned by working alongside adults.

Phillipe Aries argued that childhood was ‘discovered’ as a distinct and special phase of life in the 17th century. Watch Queue Queue This register, found tucked into a family Bible, catalogs childhood diseases and vaccinations of the nine siblings in the Fisher family, who lived in Philadelphia in the nineteenth century. In the 19th century, children and youth were important contributors to the family economy. The third plague pandemic emerged in China in the mid-nineteenth century and spread worldwide in the 1890s. The history of childhood and youth is a relatively new field in American history that has grown exponentially in size and sophistication over the past twenty years. Gradually children were protected by the law more and more. Zelizer explores the development of childhood and youth through the late 19th century into the early and mid 20th century. descriptions are overrated. Several factors led to this belief, one of which was the rise in affection and attention paid to children producing a kind of ‘culture’ of childhood – a newfound interest in children. Zelizer begins her book by describing the transition from a child's insignificance throughout time to a sanctified view of children that began in Europe and America throughout the 19th century. People either walked, travelled by boat or train or used coach horses to move from place to place. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert set an example for a prim and proper family where the children are tenderly cared for within a loving family.
What was life like for children in Victorian London? Because of the writing and photography of reformers such as Riis, the plight of vulnerable children became more difficult to ignore in the late nineteenth century. It was the Victorians in the 19th century that created the increasingly sentimental view of childhood now widely accepted. Children, however, are easily trained” (Hawes, 1910, p 904). Some histories of childhood and family life, such as those of Philippe Ariès and Lawrence Stone, have pointed to the “long” eighteenth century (c.1688-1832) as the period in which children took on the attributes and qualities we tend now to take for granted. Education - Education - Western education in the 19th century: From the mid-17th century to the closing years of the 18th century, new social, economic, and intellectual forces steadily quickened—forces that in the late 18th and the 19th centuries would weaken and, in many cases, end the old aristocratic absolutism. A pioneer in these studies was G. Stanley Hall, a former President of Clark University and founder of APA. The European expansion to new worlds overseas had stimulated commercial rivalry. In the 19th century boys were made to climb up chimneys to clean them. Laborers were in greater demand than ever. There was no electricity, instead gas lamps or candles were used for light. Diseases and epidemics of the 19th century included long-standing epidemic threats such as smallpox, typhus and yellow fever.In addition, cholera emerged as an epidemic threat and spread worldwide in six pandemics in the nineteenth century. Introduction . An ever invreasing number of publications spewed our a torrent of advise to parents. American ABC: Childhood in 19th-Century America explores images of children and their relationship to the American quest for national identity during the 19th century.The exhibition features approximately 60 paintings by such American masters as Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins and Eastman Johnson, as well as prints, photographs, illustrated children's books, schoolbooks and other objects … As a result, many could not go to school. This barbaric practice was ended by law in 1875. Poor children often had to work to earn money for their family. Poor children and those orphaned or abandoned, were highly visible in cities. Critical Essays Children and 19th-Century England ... and Great Expectations brings some of these conditions to light.