Wealthy families in the Gilded Age spent conspicuously, from fancy clothes to European palace-inspired mansions to lavish ...

dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must." — Mark Twain-1871 Andrew Carnegie, 1910. Library of Congress During the "Gilded Age," every man was a potential Andrew Carnegie, and Americans who ...

There’s people who do the dining table; the people who do the walls, the people who do the libraries,” Holzman recalled. Holzman sold about 50 items to be part of “The Gilded Age” set that ...