book one of my Fav periods in history and watching the show on HBO based on the book An excellent addition to my history of NYC collection.
This is such a beautiful, informative book I can't believe how inexpensively I was able to purchase it.
Fantastic! The drama, expansion, mansions and wealth of New York City s transformative Gilded Age era, from to , captured in a magnificently illustrated hardcoverIn 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,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 Esther Crain is a writer and native New Yorker Inshe launched Ephemeral New York ephemeralnewyork.
wordpress. com , a website that chronicles the city s past through photos, newspaper articles, art, and other artifacts The site has been featured in The New York Times, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, and other publications In, her first book, New York City inD in the Gilded Age explored this dynamic period in New York history with the help of rare stereoscopic photographs and a stereoscope viewer On September,, her second book, The Gilded Age in New York,, will be released Beautifully put together and bursting with color, the book takes a deeper dive into the Gilded Ageexploring what day to day life was like in
an age of posh Fifth Avenue mansions and crowded tenements of deep political corruption and a widening gap between rich and poor Rarely seen photographs and illustrations help tell the story of how New York transformed from a small scale post Civil War city lit by gas and powered by horses into a mighty metropolis of skyscrapers, subways, blazing electric light, and rapid social change.
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