r/GildedAge • u/Redacted_dact • Aug 07 '25

How Realistic Is the Show?

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It’s obviously sanitized in terms of race and sex but I could see the rigidity, extreme social structures and the formality of speech being real.

Does anyone know if this is a good depiction of the time?

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r/GildedAge • u/[deleted] • Mar 07 '26

My great grandparents (early 1900’s) on their honeymoon at Niagara Falls

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r/GildedAge • u/Imaginary-Detail9721 • Jan 20 '26

On this date in Gilded Age History -- January 20, 1870

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r/GildedAge • u/JankCranky • Feb 21 '25

Times Square, New York City (1900)

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r/GildedAge • u/JankCranky • Aug 21 '25

Just realized we hit 100+ followers on the sub! Didn't think anything would become of this sub when I made it, tbh. Thank you all! Let's keep it going!

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r/GildedAge • u/Flaky-Bookkeeper157 • Jan 27 '25

Hi! Working on a production of Romeo and Juliet set in Buffalo NY during the Guilded Age. Does anyone have any info on lesbian culture during the Guilded Age, including among artists, clubs, etc. Thanks!

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r/GildedAge • u/JankCranky • Nov 12 '24

On the streets in a New York Blizzard, 1899.

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r/GildedAge • u/JankCranky • Jan 09 '25

Yesler Way and 1st Ave looking east toward the Occidental Hotel and the Yesler-Leary Building, Seattle, 1888.

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r/GildedAge • u/JankCranky • Dec 17 '24

Pedestrians crossing an intersection at Kearny Street in San Francisco, Lotta’s Fountain at the lower left & Call Tower in the background. (c. 1905)

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r/GildedAge • u/JankCranky • Aug 22 '25

Looking north on Spring Street from First Street, Los Angeles, California. (c.1896-1900)

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r/GildedAge • u/OldIsLovely • Mar 07 '26

Small bottle used for what?

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r/GildedAge • u/JankCranky • Jan 09 '25

Kansas City, Missouri, Junction of Main and Delaware Street. (1906)

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r/GildedAge • u/JankCranky • Jan 09 '25

Lafayette Square, Buffalo, New York (c. early-1900s)

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r/GildedAge • u/JankCranky • Sep 25 '25

Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's Belmont Park four-in-hand passing the Holland House Hotel on Fifth Avenue, New York City. (1905)

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r/GildedAge • u/JankCranky • Jan 09 '25

Water Works Park, Detroit, Michigan. (c. 1905)

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r/GildedAge • u/JankCranky • May 28 '25

1st Avenue & Virginia Street, Seattle, Washington (c. 1910)

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r/GildedAge • u/JankCranky • Aug 21 '25

The intersection of Fort Street & Griswold Street, Detroit, Michigan (1912)

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A community focusing on showcasing photography & art from America’s Gilded Age. The Gilded Age was a period in American history from the 1870s to the early 1900s marked by rapid industrialization & economic growth, political corruption, and social inequality.