25 photos show what life looked like for Americans 150 years ago

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America looked very different in 1870.

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I toured the private library of J.P. Morgan, one of the richest men of the Gilded Age. It felt like going back in time.

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Inside the Pierpont Morgan Library.

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A guide to every real-life historical figure on 'The Gilded Age'

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Taissa Farmiga, Ben Lamb, and Carrie Coon in
Taissa Farmiga, Ben Lamb, and Carrie Coon in "The Gilded Age."

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See inside Marble House, Alva Vanderbilt Belmont's 140,000-square-foot Newport mansion that appears in 'The Gilded Age'

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Marble House in Newport, Rhode Island.
Marble House.

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Look inside the Breakers, a 70-room, 138,300-square-foot mansion that belonged to one of America's wealthiest Gilded Age families

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The Breakers, a large stone mansion.
The Breakers was owned by one of America's wealthiest families.

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Famous figures who had Titanic tickets but didn't make it on board

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Portrait of Milton S. Hershey the Chocolate King
Milton Hershey was almost aboard the ill-fated maiden voyage of the Titanic.

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A 6-acre Vanderbilt equestrian estate from the Gilded Age is listed for $3.5 million. Take a look inside.

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An aerial view of Sandy Point Farm.
Sandy Point Farm in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.

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Photos show the lavish interiors of The Elms, a Rhode Island mansion built for a coal millionaire in the Gilded Age

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The Elms.
The Elms in Newport, Rhode Island.

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Take a look inside Rosecliff, a 30-room mansion built for a Gilded Age heiress and modeled after a French palace

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Rosecliff. A giant white mansion.
Rosecliff.

Dave Hansen – The Preservation Society of Newport County

One of New York City's last surviving Gilded Age mansions is for sale for $65 million — see inside the historic home

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15 East 63rd Street exterior and living room
The Upper East Side mansion was built in 1901 at the height of New York's Gilded Age.

Evan Joseph for Sotheby's International Realty

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