Characters: Nativeborn American family

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Characters Native-born American family

• Father successful businessman and occasional
  explorer
• Mother prim housewife
• Mothers Younger Brother Fathers employee,
  explosives expert
• Little Boy the books narrator?
• Grandfather had children late in life, now
  growing senile

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Immigrant family

• Tateh cuts paper silhouettes for a living
• Mameh garment worker
• Little Girl rarely speaks

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African-American family

• Coalhouse Walker, Jr. Ragtime pianist
• Sarah mother of child with Coalhouse
• child
• Note this is the only family with actual names

Many of the rest of the characters in the novel
are historical figures used by Doctorow to
interact with each other and with the totally
fictional characters.
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Scott Joplin
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Harry Houdini (b. Erich Weiss)
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Robert E. Peary, Matthew Henson, and the Roosevelt
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Harry Thaw, Evelyn Nesbit, and Stanford White
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Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung
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Tom Thumb and Lavinias Wedding
Charles Sherwood Stratton and Lavinia Warren
Sherwood
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Emma Goldman
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Jacob Riis, photographer
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William Big Bill Heywood
IWW International Workers of the World
(Wobblies) Lawrence Textile Strike, Lawrence,
MA (1912)
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J. P. Morgan and Henry Ford
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Pierce-Arrow vs. Model T
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1905 Panhard
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The Morgan Library (29 E. 36th St.)
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