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Fascinating Women: Maud Humphrey
Maud Humphrey was yet another who took full advantage of the widening opportunities for educated young women at the turn-of-the-century. Though she is now known for being the mother of Academy Award...
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If London Were Like New York (1902)
“If London Were Like New York: A Peek At The Metropolis After The American Invasion” from Harmsworth’s Magazine (The London Magazine), February 1902. For the purpose of this article the gentle reader...
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Fine Dining in Gilded Age New York
I’ve already detailed the razzle-dazzle nightlife of the “Lobster Palace Society“, but let’s take a look at an actual menu from one of Broadway’s infamous restaurants: Rector’s. Click to enlarge - ©...
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A Vest Pocket Guide to Brothels in 19th-Century New York
I discovered this book earlier this year during one of my haphazard click-throughs on the New York Times website, and was very intrigued that it has survived for over 100 years (who purchased the...
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Staging Fashion at the Bard Graduate Center
From the website: From January 18 to April 8, 2012, the Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture (BGC) presents Staging Fashion, 1880–1920: Jane Hading, Lily Elsie,...
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Florenz Ziegfeld and His Girls
Spectacle was the key word in musical theatre of the Belle Epoque, and from the decadent Folies Bergères in Paris, to the Gaiety Girls of London, savvy impresarios gave audiences the glitz, the...
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Primer to Gilded Age New York Society
By now you’ve probably heard the news of NBC’s new deal with Downton Abbey’s Julian Fellowes to create a period drama set in Gilded Age New York titled–naturally–”The Gilded Age.” In its release, NBC...
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Breaking into Gilded Age New York Society
Breaking into The Four Hundred became an art, as C. W. de Lyon Nicholls details in his book The Ultra-fashionable Peerage of America: Marriage outright into the smart set is far and away the surest...
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The Emancipation Proclamation Exposition of 1913
In 1913, African-American New Yorkers celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation with a ten day exposition. Led by W.E.B. DuBois and members of the New York State...
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Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the spending of a...
Due for release September 10th 2013 ‘Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the spending of a great American fortune,’ is a book about a house, the man who built it and the fate of...
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Opera Stars of the Edwardian Era
The Edwardian era was the apex of the Golden Age of Opera, which roughly dated between the 1880s and the early 1930s. Hundreds of thousands of people from all walks of life crammed into opera houses...
View ArticleEyewitness to the Great Blizzard of 1888
Video description Albert Hunt recalls the Great Blizzard of 1888 in Winsted Connecticut. He worked for Dowd Printing Co. on North Main Street. This is a wire recording from 1949 made at Pete’s Steak...
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WWI Wednesday: Homecoming of the Harlem Hellfighters
Return of the 15th New York (369th Infantry) Shown swinging up Lenox Avenue, New York City, Where they Received a Royal Welcome. No band of heroes returning from war ever were accorded such a welcome...
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Consuelo & Alva Vanderbilt: The Dollar Princess and Her Mother by Julie Ferry
08 Jul 1914, Newport, Rhode Island, USA — Duchess of Marlborough and Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont. — Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS As mother and daughter relationships go, Alva and Consuelo Vanderbilt’s was...
View ArticlePERIOD DRAMA ALERT: TNT’s The Alienist
Based on the 1994 novel by Caleb Carr, The Alienist is a psychological thriller set in 1896 about the hunt for a serial killer responsible for the gruesome murders of boy prostitutes that have gripped...
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