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Gilded and Age
Carnegie is buried only a few yards away from union organizer Samuel Gompers, another important figure of industry in the Gilded Age.
Steam coal was subsequently found in the Rhondda and further west, but many of the great companies of the Welsh coal industry's Gilded Age started operation in Aberdare and the lower Cynon Valley, including those of Samuel Thomas, David Davies and Sons, Nixon's Navigation and Powell Duffryn.
* Gilded Age & Progressive Era Cartoons, industry, labor, politics, prohibition from Ohio State University
Bellamy's vision of a country relieved of its social ills through abandonment of the principle of competition and establishment of state ownership of industry proved an appealing panacea to a generation of intellectuals alienated from the dark side of Gilded Age America.
True Women: Carpet Weavers, Industrialization, and Labor Reform in the Gilded Age.
* Weir, Robert E. Knights Unhorsed: Internal Conflict in Gilded Age Social Movement ( Wayne State University Press, 2000 )
Some have a cultural usage (" the Gilded Age "), others refer to prominent historical events (" the Inter-War years: 1918 – 1939 "), yet others are defined by decimal numbering systems (" the 1960s ", " the 17th century ").
* The Gilded Age ( 1876 ) by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
" Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2006 5 ( 1 ): 18 – 45.
Every summer the group gathers in Newport, RI for week long dance training, seaside teas, and evenings enjoying the splendors of the Gilded Age.
The latter half of the Victorian age roughly coincided with the first portion of the Belle Époque era of continental Europe and the Gilded Age of the United States.
The term originated during the American Gilded Age of the late nineteenth century with the circulation battles between Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal.
* The Gilded Age begins in 1874, lasting until 1896.
The 1880s were also part of the Gilded Age, which lasted from 1874 to 1907.
The scandal hit epic proportions in the United States presidential election, 1872 which saw the re-election of Ulysses S. Grant and became the biggest scandal of the Gilded Age.
Wall Street's architecture is generally rooted in the Gilded Age, though there are also some art deco influences in the neighborhood.
To Americans, it can sometimes represent elitism and power politics, and its role has been a source of controversy throughout the nation's history, particularly beginning around the Gilded Age period in the late 19th century.
* Richard White, " Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: A Gilded Age Story of the West and the South in Washington, D. C ." Southern Spaces, 16 April 2009
The fair was planned in the early 1890s, the Gilded Age of rapid industrial growth, immigration, and class violence.
The title can also be seen as a reference to the Gilded Age, a time of economic expansion roughly coinciding with the first Victorian era.
" 100 Years of Oz: Baum's ' Wizard of Oz ' as Gilded Age Public Relations " in Public Relations Quarterly, Fall 1998
During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, Jacksonville and nearby St. Augustine became popular winter resorts for the rich and famous.
In the U. S., the word château took root selectively, in the Gilded Age resort town of Newport, Rhode Island, the châteaux were called “ cottages ”, but, north of Wilmington, Delaware, in the rich, rural “ Château Country ” centred upon the powerful Du Pont family, château is used with its original definition.
His writings were characterized by the " rags-to-riches " narrative, which had a formative effect on America during the Gilded Age.
In addition to the colonial architecture, the city is known for its Gilded Age mansions, which have also received extensive restoration from both private owners and non-profits such as the Preservation Society of Newport County.

Gilded and industrialist
Gompers is buried only a few yards away from industrialist Andrew Carnegie, another important figure of industry in the Gilded Age.

Gilded and railroad
With the arrival of the railroad, Great Barrington developed into a Gilded Age resort community for those seeking relief from the heat and pollution of cities, although it is now considered a small city in itself.
The development of these three structures, coupled with railroad access to them, established Palm Beach as a winter resort for the wealthy members of America's Gilded Age.

Gilded and president
After his return in 1855, Hunt founded the first American architectural school at his Tenth Street Studio Building ( beginning with only four students ), co-founded the American Institute of Architects and from 1888 to 1891 served as the Institute's third president, brought the first apartment building to Manhattan in a burst of scandal, and set a new ostentatious style of grand houses for the social elite and the eccentric, competitive new millionaires of the Gilded Age.

Gilded and Robert
Though not a commercial success, Gilded was measured by rock critic Robert Christgau as " an ominous, obsessive, tongue-in-cheek country-rock synthesis, absorbing rural and urban, traditional and contemporary, at point of impact.
* Brøndal, Jørn, " The Ethnic and Racial Side of Robert M. La Follette ," Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, ( 2011 ) 10 ( 3 ): 340-353
* Cherny, Robert W. American Politics in the Gilded Age, 1868 – 1900 ( 1997 ) online edition
New York 1880: Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded Age, Robert A. M. Stern ( Author ), Thomas Mellins ( Author ), David Fishman ( Author ).
* Johnston, Robert D. " Re-Democratizing the Progressive Era: The Politics of Progressive Era Political Historiography ," Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era ( 2002 ) 1 # 1 pp 68-92

Gilded and decided
In 1967 the German Ministry of Defense decided to re-open a Leopard 1 improvement program, known as the Vergoldeter Leopard (" Gilded Leopard "), later renamed the Keiler (" Wild Boar ").

Gilded and narrow
Gilded Flickers occasionally hybridize with Northern Flickers in the narrow zones where their range and habitat overlap.

Gilded and top
To prepare for the film, set in America's Gilded Age, he wore 1870s-period aristocratic clothing around New York City for two months, including top hat, cane and cape in cold weather.
The Gilded Flicker most frequently builds its nest hole in a majestic saguaro cactus, excavating a nest hole nearer the top than the ground.

Gilded and nearby
Raquette Lake served as a midpoint to other Gilded Age retreats such as the Great Camps Sagamore ( 1897 ; now a National Historic Landmark ), Camp Uncas ( 1890 ; became a National Historic Landmark in fall 2008 ), and Kamp Kill Kare ( 1896 ) on nearby lakes Sagamore, Mohegan, and Kora, respectively.

Gilded and Governor
* Gordon McKinney, Zeb Vance: North Carolina's Civil War Governor and Gilded Age Political Leader ( Chapel Hill, N. C., 2004 ), standard scholarly biography

Gilded and would
By 1880, there were 30 hotels, with tourists arriving by train and ferry to the Gilded Age resort that would rival Newport, Rhode Island.
The period from 1880 until 1920 would be dubbed the Berkshire Cottage era, when the small New England town was transformed into a Gilded Age resort similar to Newport, Rhode Island and Bar Harbor, Maine.
Indeed, " if the Gilded Age were to be summed up by a single house, that house would have to be The Breakers.
Later years saw the rise of the Gilded Age which saw prosperity for the city's upper classes amid the further growth of a poor immigrant working class, and an increasing consolidation, both economic and municipal, of what would become the five boroughs in 1898.

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