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The Breakers is a Gilded Age mansion in Newport, Rhode Island

The Gilded Age is a time in the in history of the USA. It lasted from the end of the American Civil War, and up to the late 19th century. It corresponds to the latter part of the British Victorian era.

The name Gilded Age was first used by writer Mark Twain in The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873). The time saw rapid progress in technology and railroad expansions and industrialization. Immigrants came in the millions. The intense political partisanship of the day included disputes over currency, tariffs, political corruption and patronage, railroads and business trusts.

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  • 69workmen

    The celebration of the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad, May 10, 1869

  • The first oil district in Los Angeles, Toluca Street, ca.1895-1901 (CHS-3686)

    Toluca Street Oil Field in Los Angeles oil district, c. 1895–1901

  • Health and pleasure on America's greatest railroad.. (1890) (14574212178)

    Grand Central Depot in New York City, opened in 1871

  • 'Sacramento Railroad Station' by William Hahn

    Sacramento Railroad Station in 1874

  • Vanderbilt & Fisk

    Cornelius Vanderbilt versus James Fisk Jr. in a famous rivalry with the Erie Railroad

  • LOSSING(1876) p150 OSWEGO STARCH FACTORY, OSWEGO, NY (T. KINGSFORD & SONS)

    Oswego starch factory in Oswego, New York, 1876

  • Andrew Carnegie, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing slightly left, 1913

    Scottish immigrant Andrew Carnegie led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry

  • Standard oil octopus loc color

    Octopus representing Standard Oil with tentacles wrapped around the U.S. Congress and state capitals, as well as the steel, copper, and shipping industries, and reaching for the White House

  • The protectors of our industries

    Cartoon showing Cyrus Field, Jay Gould, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Russell Sage, seated on bags of "millions", on large heavy raft made of low wages and high prices being carried by workers

  • Tompkins square riot 1874

    New York police violently attacking unemployed workers in Tompkins Square Park, 1874

  • American 1902 Fourth of July fireworks

    Celebrating ethnic pluralism on 4th of July. 1902 Puck editorial cartoon

  • PJ Kennedy

    Businessman and politician P. J. Kennedy of Boston in 1900; his grandson John F. Kennedy became president in 1960

  • Volga-Germans-US

    Temporary quarters for Volga Germans in central Kansas, 1875

  • Hultstrand61

    Norwegian settlers in front of their sod house in North Dakota in 1898

  • Home Insurance Building

    The Home Insurance Building in Chicago became the world's first skyscraper when it was built in 1885

  • USA Territorial Growth 1880

    Map of the United States, 1870–80. Orange indicates statehood, light blue territories, and green unorganized territories

  • Portrait of Marsdin, Non-Native Man, and Group of Students SEP 1893

    A group of students, together with a non-white man, 1893

  • The chess players thomas eakins

    The Chess Players, Thomas Eakins (1876)

  • Mary Cassatt - The Tea - MFA Boston 42.178

    The Cup of Tea, Mary Cassatt (ca. 1879)

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