Social Register St. Paul/Social Register Minneapolis - 3 issues for 1914, 1916, and 1918.

Verlag: Social Register Association, 1914

Beschreibung

3 issues of the Minneapolis/St. Paul Social Register, for 1914, 1916, and 1918. Rare (previous years are intended to be disposed of). 12 mo., black paper over boards, with orange lettering. The spines are missing from these copies. Hinges are loose but secure, now protected in a single archival acetate jacket. Published semi-annually and bound back to back, Minneapolis and St. Paul. The Social Register was founded in 1887 by Louis Keller, a former gossip-sheet publisher, and later acquired by Malcolm Forbes. With the advent of the Gilded Age, fashionable ladies began the practice of leaving calling cards at the homes of other notable women whom they visited; these cards would be cataloged into "visiting lists". These lists were compiled into directories for 13 cities. By 1917, 26 cities had directories including Minneapolis/St. Paul. When Malcolm Forbes took over, in 1977 he combined the lists into one volume. Earlier editions tracked Marriages, Deaths, and the new addresses of "Married Maidens", even clubs and yachts. Inclusion in the Social Register has historically tracked establishment (New England) families of "polite society", members of the American upper class, within the Social Register cities. People from new money were generally not included. To this day, the Social Register?s subjects are mostly white, Christian, well-connected, sponsored and endorsed by other listed persons, and found ultimately acceptable by the association?s advisory committee. "Understated civility, conviviality, prominence and stability is who we are." Printed editions of The Social Register have long been bound in black with pumpkin-colored lettering. Each edition includes, in epigram, a quote by Thomas Jefferson: "Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity.". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 301529

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Social Register St. Paul/Social Register ...

Verlag: Social Register Association

Erscheinungsdatum: 1914

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

Auflage: First Edition.