Invisible Magicians: Domestic Servants in Gilded Age New York

Published: Feb. 22, 2022, 5:05 a.m.

The Gilded Gentleman is joined by Esther Crain, author of The Gilded Age in New York 1870-1914, to look at the various roles and responsibilities of domestic staff in grand mansions and even in more modest homes. This show pays tribute to the vast numbers of "invisible magicians" without whom the dinners, balls and daily workings of households of the Gilded Age would never have been possible.