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Item specifics
- Condition
- Pages
- 264
- Binding
- Hard cover
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- No
- Type
- Activity Book
- Publication Date
- 1989-06-01
- Book Series
- None
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- America
- Intended Audience
- Young Adults, Adults
- Edition
- 1989 Edition
- ISBN
- 9780820310701
- Book Title
- Jekyll Island Club : Southern Haven for America's Millionaires
- Item Length
- 11in
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Publication Year
- 1989
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- Travel, Architecture, History
- Topic
- United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, FL, GA, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), United States / South / South Atlantic (DC, De, FL, GA, Md, Nc, SC, VA, WV), History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
- Item Width
- 8.5in
- Item Weight
- 39.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 264 Pages
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Product Information
From its inception in 1886, the Jekyll Island Club included in its elite membership the nation's wealthiest families, among them the Rockefellers, Pulitzers, Vanderbilts, and Morgans. Far from the hectic northern cities where the members tended their fortunes, this private island refuge off Georgia's coast offered the wealthy a tranquil change of pace. Bringing together more than 240 fascinating photographs, Barton and June McCash trace the sixty-two-year history of this exclusive retreat whose members at one time were reputed to represent one-seventh of the nation's wealth. From the time of the club's opening, members came to Jekyll Island each winter to seek elegant leisure, arriving on yachts or in private train cars from New York, Boston, Chicago, and Philadelphia. Capturing the lives and amusements of the very wealthy, this evocative photographic history presents descriptions of elaborate costume balls and playful outdoor parties; the Rockefeller clan gathering at water's edge and J. P. Morgan lounging by the pool; Victor Astor's "patented beach boat" and the Goulds' private indoor tennis court; the Vanderbilts' yacht anchored offshore and the imposing "cottages" built by individual members. During their stays, members amused themselves in a variety of pursuits. In the 1890s they organized bicycling clubs and held races on the beach. Hunting was also for a time a favorite activity and the island was regularly stocked with imported wildlife--pheasant, quail, turkey, and bucks. By 1919, however, the game committee had dwindled to one member, and prime hunting grounds had been cleared for golf courses and tennis courts. The hub of the island's social life, however, was the clubhouse, where members gathered in formal attire to converse, while drinking fine wine and dining on freshly caught game and local delicacies. The seclusion that Jekyll Island offered was not impenetrable. On the day after Christmas in 1900, the country's fascination with technology could no longer be resisted, and the sound of a gasoline automobile disturbed the island's quiet glades for the first time. Despite the immense wealth of the club, it was not immune to the stock market crash of 1893 and the Panic of 1907. The club managed to survive World War I intact and enjoyed a "golden age" from 1919 to 1927, during which time it held its own against the increasingly popular Florida resorts. The stock market crash of 1929, however, initiated a death spiral. Membership declined steadily throughout the 1930s, and when the United States entered World War II, the club closed its doors forever. Based on surviving club records, newspaper accounts, and letters and diaries of members and guests, The Jekyll Island Club chronicles an era when leisure was the preserve of the wealthy. For more than six decades the island, now a state park, served as a haven for millionaires. As one visitor described the Jekyll Island Club, it was "the only place of its kind in the world--and will never be again."
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
ISBN-10
0820310700
ISBN-13
9780820310701
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1394624
Product Key Features
Book Title
Jekyll Island Club : Southern Haven for America's Millionaires
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, FL, GA, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), United States / South / South Atlantic (DC, De, FL, GA, Md, Nc, SC, VA, WV), History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
Publication Year
1989
Genre
Travel, Architecture, History
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
11in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
8.5in
Item Weight
39.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hs2725.J45j456 1989
Reviews
"A perfect book for the well-appointed coffee table . . . It chronicles a time when leisure was the perquisite of great wealth, when the monied elite of America sought splendid and exclusive isolation on one of Georgia's Golden Isles ."-- Georgia Journal, "A fascinating book . . . An in-depth study into an institution that has come down through social history more in myth than in fact."--Baltimore Sun, "Through the rich use of architectural drawings, maps, and above all, photographs, the Jekyll Island Club history could not be more endearingly told."--Virginia Quarterly Review, "Extensive and very readable . . . A well-documented and extensively illustrated history."--Georgia Librarian, "Professors McCash are to be commended for this intelligent, long-need study. Working from widely scattered club records, letters, and diaries, they have crafted a compelling, sometimes poignant, social history. Interspersed with dozens of beautifully evocative photographs, it is one of those rare productions possessing an appeal to scholar and layman alike."--Alabama Review, "Through the rich use of architectural drawings, maps, and above all, photographs, the Jekyll Island Club history could not be more endearingly told."-- Virginia Quarterly Review, "In this lavishly illustrated volume . . . 240 photographs speak eloquently of 'the richest, the most exclusive, the most inaccessible' social organization in the world."--Booklist, "A fascinating book . . . An in-depth study into an institution that has come down through social history more in myth than in fact."-- Baltimore Sun, "A perfect book for the well-appointed coffee table . . . It chronicles a time when leisure was the perquisite of great wealth, when the monied elite of America sought splendid and exclusive isolation on one ofGeorgia's Golden Isles."--Georgia Journal, "A carefully researched, well-written, lavishly illustrated volume that evokes a lost, fairytalelike era."--Islands, "A carefully researched, well-written, lavishly illustrated volume that evokes a lost, fairytalelike era."-- Islands, "In this lavishly illustrated volume . . . 240 photographs speak eloquently of 'the richest, the most exclusive, the most inaccessible' social organization in the world."-- Booklist, "Professors McCash are to be commended for this intelligent, long-need study. Working from widely scattered club records, letters, and diaries, they have crafted a compelling, sometimes poignant, social history. Interspersed with dozens of beautifully evocative photographs, it is one of those rare productions possessing an appeal to scholar and layman alike."-- Alabama Review
Copyright Date
1989
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
88-017520
Dewey Decimal
366/.9758742
Dewey Edition
19
Illustrated
Yes
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- Aug 21, 2018
A must read if you have ever visited the Jekyll Club
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- Mar 30, 2022
Beautiful book!
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