CSPAN3 American Artifacts January 11, 2015
Of gilded new york, being shown at the museum of the city of new york. The show opened in november of 2013 and closes in october of 2014. In this beautiful jewel box of a gallery, we have assembled a variety of objects that help the public to appreciate what life was like for the 1 in the original gilded age that followed the civil war from the 1880s through about 1910. That period was characterized by great wealth. Kind of like the. Com people of our own era. Dot com people of our era. In those days, the money came from various industries, mining, railroads, smelting iron, and also the rise o...