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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

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01BU1IU0E
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Black Dog & Leventhal; Illustrated edition (September 27, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 27, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 99798 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 295 pages
Reviewer: MedicalAesthetician
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Beautiful Illustration
Review: Bought this for a client. She loved the details and illustration

Reviewer: Jordan Sollitto
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Time Travel and New York Tourism all Rolled into One
Review: I loved this book. An exploration of virtually every aspect of life in New York during the Gilded Age, it combines fascinating historical background, entertaining anecdotes and a vast array of wonderful old photos and drawings to make you feel like you have travelled through time to visit the world's greatest city during an unparalleled period of growth, development and modernization. Any New Yorker will enjoy the countless origin stories of familiar neighborhoods, buildings, bridges and other landmarks. Any history buff will revel in its peek into life in a simpler time as the industrial influences that would forever change the city, country and world are just beginning to make their mark. Great, great stuff.

Reviewer: Labelle Jennie
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great book. And great look at the Big Apple and how it came to be big.
Review: Very interesting and well researched. I love pictorial histories. The images say much more about the times. The only error I saw was the photo on page 291. That was taken in the 30s or thereabouts. The car in the middle upper part of the image was not in use - not even made- in 1900. Also the style of dress for the bystanders are clearly from a later time. Besides that very minor detail, this is a great book. Highly recommend it.

Reviewer: sunnyinpdx
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: An intriguing look at New York
Review: As a fan of Ephemeral New York, I was excited to get my hands on this book. The amount of research that went into it is astonishing and the writing (like on ENY) is crisp, engaging, and full of the tiny, quirky details that breathe life into the city's history. "Addictive read" is not hyperbole. Minutes after my copy was delivered, my husband took it out of my hands and started reading. When he accidentally left it unintended, my middle-school-age son picked it up and read it cover to cover. He took it into school to show his history teacher and then she devoured it. Highly recommend!

Reviewer: Salty Girl
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Dazzling!
Review: Wow....I can't say enough good things about this book. I love good, meaty coffee table books, and this certainly fits the bill. The illustrations are simply dazzling. Many of the historic photos are colorized in a way I've never seen before. The cover of the book is a good example of what to expect inside....a huge picture with lots of detail painstakingly colorized that brings a real vibrancy to the work. My husband and I kind of get hypnotized staring at some of those colorized images of Mulberry street and Central Park.The actual book itself was much larger than I was expecting, and the quality of the illustrations were sharp and clear. Even the fonts in the side-bars added a wonderful period touch.And the text: Very nice! This is a whirlwind tour of NYC, so no topic has a ton of depth, but there are interesting sidebars with vignettes that provide humanizing details. I hope I don't sound like an advertisement....but for $27 you get a lot for your money. I wish there were more stunning coffee table books like this for other cities. Boston, anyone? Washington DC?

Reviewer: BDay
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Just got it.
Review: I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but I bought it because I attended a lecture by the author who gave a sneak peek at the contents so I know it has excellent information inside. What surprised me was the quality of the book. It's a good size with nice, thick pages. But, most importantly, the pictures inside are stunning. I don't know how they managed to get that level of detail out of pictures so old. I know I will spend hours just looking at the pictures.

Reviewer: w
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: this is about the age in general, not the eponymous gilded persons
Review: Other reviews have said pretty much everything there is to say; my beef is that this is a photo survey of NY in general at about the turn of the century - NOT specifically about the RICH PEOPLE whom the age is named for. I was looking for a book that would've showed much more about these gilded age RICH PEOPLE, more snaps of their mansions, the interiors, the gilded age RICH PEOPLE themselves, what they wore, where they bought it, who designed it and supplied it. Besides Del's, where did they eat? What did they eat? How much was a Singer-Sargent portrait? How much was a carriage; how many servants was needed to support a 65 room mansion? When they shopped, how did they do it? What happened to all their stuff? In the spirit of being morbidly fascinated by and envious of Rich People, I wanted more, More, MORE.NOTE: I've discovered the book The Opulent Interiors of the Gilded Age [Dover 0-486-25250-7] a reprint of a 2 volume work from 1883/84. Opulent Interiors has pictures of about 95 private homes of the richest of the rich - almost all of them demolished within 50 years of being built; a $17.5 million dollar mansion, in 1880 $$, gone in 65 years! Updated text by Lewis/Turner/McQuillin dissects what your'e seeing [who built it, who influenced them, the statement they were making], the source of their wealth [how they got and lost it], how wealthy Americans began to define and solidify their position as a 'class' - well, all sorts of general things that you want to know about Gilded Age Rich People without having to read a gigantic book to get at it - really great.

Reviewer: SArmst2547
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Beautiful book about New York's growth period
Review: This is more like a coffee-table book, with gorgeous pictures, colorized photographs, drawings, contemporary newspaper cut-outs, and the like. I found it superbly produced.In addition, however, the commentary was excellent. I learned so much about New York from this book!The contents included not just the mega-rich, but also the discussion of the tenements and the growth of Progressive thought as America moved into the Industrial age with brio and passion.Totally worth the price.

Reviewer: Doug
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Great and very informative.

Reviewer: Client d'Amazon
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: ARRIVE TRES VITE ET DANS UN BON ETAT. SUPER CONTENTE.

Reviewer: pdel
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: A superb book for anyone interested in NYC history, or indeed the history of America. It looks like a coffee table book, large format and lots of pictures, so much indeed that it took me a weekend to 'flick' through it. The revelation is that the text, of which there is much, is hugely informative and demonstrates not only considerable research but a real love of the city and its people. A valuable addition to anyone's NY library.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: 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!

Reviewer: Retired
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: If you like books of historical photographs, especially if you know New York City, you will love this book. The photo selection is excellent and covers the history of New York very well. The text is an excellent account of the story of New York, especially the waves of immigrants that made New York what it is today.