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“Haves and Have-Nots”: Class Divides in the Gilded Age. Millionaire C.K. Billings’ dinner party on horseback, New York, ca. 1900. Andrew Carnegie, U.S. Steel. John D. Rockefeller, Standard Oil. Horatio Alger “rags to riches” novels. Kansas artist Albert Reid on industry domination, ca. 1900.
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Millionaire C.K. Billings’ dinner party on horseback, New York, ca. 1900
Andrew Carnegie, U.S. Steel John D. Rockefeller, Standard Oil
“Darwin’s Finches,” from Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, 1859
Mark Twain and Charles Dudley, Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, 1873
Jewish laborer works with family to sew garter belts for income