LEADER 00000cam 2201057 i 4500 001 ocn943689311 003 OCoLC 008 160519s2016 nyua 001 0 eng 020 9780316353663|q(hardcover) 020 0316353663|q(hardcover) 020 |z9780316353687|q(ebook) 041 eng 082 00 974.7/1041|223 092 0 973|bengelska 100 1 Crain, Esther,|eauthor 245 14 The Gilded Age in New York, 1870-1910 /|cEsther Crain 250 First edition 264 1 New York, NY :|bBlack Dog & Leventhal Publishers,|c2016 300 304 pages :|billustrations (some color) ;|c32 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 500 Includes index 505 0 The dawning of the Gilded Age -- The moneymaking city -- The rise of the new rich -- A city of newcomers -- The poor and the rise of social welfare -- The city at play and at rest -- Crime and sin in the city -- The new woman takes New York -- New York's outer boroughs -- The modern metropolis comes together 520 The drama, expansion, mansions and wealth of New York City's transformative Gilded Age era, from 1870 to 1910, captured in a magnificently illustrated hardcover. In forty short years, New York City suddenly became a city of skyscrapers, subways, streetlights, and Central Park, as well as sprawling bridges that connected the once-distant boroughs. In Manhattan, more than a million poor immigrants crammed into tenements, while the half of the millionaires in the entire country lined Fifth Avenue with their opulent mansions. The Gilded Age in New York captures what is was like to live in Gotham then, to be a daily witness to the city's rapid evolution.-Newspapers, autobiographies, and personal diaries offer fascinating glimpses into daily life among the rich, the poor, and the surprisingly large middle class.-The use of photography and illustrated periodicals provides astonishing images that document the bigness of New York: the construction of the Statue of Liberty; the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge; the shimmering lights of Luna Park in Coney Island; the mansions of Millionaire's Row.-Sidebars detail smaller, fleeting moments: Alice Vanderbilt posing proudly in her "Electric Light" ball gown at a society-changing masquerade ball; immigrants stepping off the boat at Ellis Island; a young Theodore Roosevelt witnessing Abraham Lincoln's funeral. The Gilded Age in New York is a rare illustrated look at this amazing time in both the city and the country as a whole. Author Esther Crain, the go-to authority on the era, weaves first-hand accounts and fascinating details into a vivid tapestry of American society at the turn of the century. Praise for New-York Historical Society New York City in 3D In The Gilded Age, also by Esther Crain: "Vividly captures the transformation from cityscape of horse carriages and gas lamps 'bursting with beauty, power and possibilities' as it staggered into a skyscraping Imperial City."--Sam Roberts, The New York Times "Get a glimpse of Edith Wharton's world." - Entertainment Weekly Must List "What better way to revisit this rich period . . '" - Library Journal 648 7 1865-1951|2fast 650 1 Poor|zNew York (State)|zNew York 651 0 New York (N.Y.)|xHistory|y1865-1898 651 0 New York (N.Y.)|xHistory|y1898-1951 651 7 New York (State)|zNew York 655 4 Nonfiction 655 7 Historia|2saogf 655 7 History.|2fast 655 7 Illustrated works.|2fast 655 7 Illustrated works.|2lcgft 907 00 180725
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