1890s new york city

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The lowly potato changed color photography forever. In 1903, two French inventors and photographers, Auguste and Louis Lumière, used the potato as the basis for their patented process in creating color photographs, or Autochromes as they were called. It was a simple but ingenious technique—crush potatoes into tiny particles; separate these minuscule starch particles into three; add red, violet and green dye; mix onto a glass plate; brush off the excess; flatten the dyed particles onto the…

The term for this period came into use in the 1920s and 1930s and was derived from writer Mark Twain's 1873 novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, which satirized an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gilding. The Breakers, a Gilded Age mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, belonging to the wealthy Vanderbilt family of railroad industry tycoons. A Tour Through the Gilded Age New York The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West. As…

"Winter – Fifth Avenue" (1893) by Alfred Stieglitz

FIFTH AVENUE AT 52ND STREET IN NYC IN THE 1890’S