[Click on the map for a closer look!] In 2014 I purchased a second copy of Isabel Anderson’s book, Under the Black Horse Flag (1926), for my collection of Anderson materials. My copy of this important reference work by one of the subjects of my forthcoming dual biography, Larz and Isabel Anderson: Wealth and Celebrity in the Gilded Age, had become […]
A compendium of short, illustrated essays about the people, buildings, gardens, art, books and more that define the long 19th-century in the U.S.
Larz Anderson’s “Tesla” | The Gilded Age in America
The Tesla is currently one of the hottest passenger vehicles in the world, yet the idea behind it – an automobile that runs on electricity – is hardly new. Over a hundred years ago, Larz Anderson purchased the electric automobile shown here. The engine and mechanical core of the 1905 vehicle were manufactured in England by the Electromobile […]