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Author/Artist Gregory, Alexis.
Title Families of fortune : life in the Gilded Age / Alexis Gregory ; foreword by John Kenneth Galbraith.
Publisher/Date New York : Rizzoli International Publications, c1993.
Description 224 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.
Location Call Number Vol./Copy Status Information
 Frick Book Stacks  006 G862    CHECKED OUT - ASK AT REF DESK
Table of Contents
 "Conspicuous Consumption Illustrated" / John Kenneth Galbraith7
 Overture9
 Real Estate21
 Transportation35
 Discoverers, Consolidators, and Monopolists57
 Bankers81
 Millionaires' Houses103
 Collectors133
 Travel163
 Society185
 Epilogue218
 Bibliography219
 Index220
 Photographic Credits223
 Acknowledgments224
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Donor Frick: Gift of Lore Heinemann in memory of her husband Dr. Rudolf J. Heinemann.
LC subject United States -- Social life and customs -- 1865-1918.
United States -- History -- 1865-1921.
Upper class -- United States -- History.
Upper class -- Europe -- History.
Europe -- Social life and customs.
Europe -- History -- 1871-1918.
ISBN 0847817733 :
WorldCat no. 28113758

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