This post was originally published in 2016. Please scroll to the bottom of this page for updated information about the emeralds Isabel is wearing in this photograph. Isabel Weld Perkins was born on March 29, 1876, during the year of the American Centennial. To celebrate her 2016 birthday in a special way, her biographer, Skip Moskey, […]
February 2023
The Gilded Age in America | An eclectic compendium of short, illustrated essays about the celebrities, buildings, gardens, art, books and more that help define America's Gilded Age. | Page 5
by Skip Moskey Pierre Lorillard’s houseboat “Caiman”, pictured here in a watercolor published in 1893 in The Illustrated American. (Source: Google Books.) We often associate yachts and steamships with Gilded Age vacations and recreation, but did you know that houseboats were also once the “in” thing for wealthy boaters like Pierre Lorillard, Alfred Gwynn Vanderbilt, […]
Isabel’s Afternoon at the Movies | The Gilded Age in America
After Larz Anderson’s death in 1937, Isabel Anderson started finding new ways to socialize and entertain herself on a much smaller and simpler scale than she had when her husband was alive. Giving large parties, wearing fancy clothes, hobnobbing with high society, and traveling to the four corners of the earth had been Larz’s lifestyle, not hers. After her […]
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