“Americans in Paris"

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Creator

Zoe Anderson Norris.

Title

“Americans in Paris"

Publisher

The Criterion,

Date

November 1900,

Subject

cover art by George Hand Wright

Description

Written during Zoe’s two-year Europe sojourn with her teenage daughter Clarence, this travelogue in New York-based Criterion (1896-1905) describes American millionaires’ extravagant parties at the World’s Fair in Paris. Champagne flowed in fountains, and dining tables were set with “gold plates of different patterns, so that you knew they couldn’t have been just washed and put back.”  

Source

From the Collection of Eve M. Kahn.