• THE GILDED AGE: ASTORS VS VANDERBILTS PT. 2

  • Sep 17 2022
  • Length: 24 mins
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THE GILDED AGE: ASTORS VS VANDERBILTS PT. 2

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  • Gilded Age New York was all about flaunting your money. And no one did it better than the first families of excess, the Astors and the Vanderbilts. Part two is all about multi-hyphenate Alva Vanderbilt. Social climber, society leader, architect, suffragette. We will also take a look at her daughter Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough. Tune in!

    Photos

    Vanderbilt Costume Ball of 1883:

    https://www.antiquetrader.com/collecting-101/the-vanderbilt-ball-of-1883

    Electric Light Dress:

    https://theenchantedmanor.com//wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Alice-Vanderbilt-dressed-as-the-Electric-Light-for-the-ball-3-26-1883.jpg

    Consuelo Vanderbilt:

    https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/images/consuelo-vanderbilt-2.jpg

    Nonfiction

    Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age by Amanda Mckenzie Stuart

    Vanderbilt by Anderson Cooper

    Social Climber: The Iron Will and Determined Rise of Alva Vanderbilt by The Gilded Gentelman Podcast

    Edith Wharton’s New York by The Bowery Boys Podcast

    Fiction

    The Gilded Age on HBO

    The Social Graces by Renee Rosen

    A Well Behaved Woman by Theresa Anne Fowler
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