The Gilded Age

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Now Playing: Tennessee Ernie Ford, “Sixteen Tons,” 1955 (original, ca. 1930)

Writers Mark Twain and Charles Dudley

Twain and Dudley, Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, 1873

Andrew Carnegie, U.S. Steel John D. Rockefeller, Standard Oil

McGuffey Eclectic Reader, 1870s

Illustration from McGuffey Eclectic Reader, 1877

“Charlie and Rob,” McGuffey Eclectic Reader, 1879

A modern schoolhouse in Boston, ca. 1890

Horatio Alger “rags to riches” novels

The Royal Path of Life: Aids to Success and Happiness, 1877

Albert Reid, “J.P Morgan”

C.J. Taylor, “King of the World”

“The Octopus,“ Puck

“Darwin’s Finches,” from Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, 1859

“Funny Little Government,” The Verdict

Home of Alexander Stewart, department store magnate, New York, ca. 1890

Garment workers for Alexander Stewart’s department stores, ca. 1875

Andrew Carnegie’s Fifth Avenue mansion, New York City

Joseph Stella, “Painter’s Row,” charcoal on paper, ca. 1908

Middle-class diners in a cosmopolitan restaurant, ca. 1880

A Jewish immigrant family sewing garter belts for income, c. 1890

Laborer and his family in a one-room tenement