Social Register

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The Social Register is a list of successful and prominent people in the United States who are considered to be of particular importance in the social field.

Admission criteria

Only people from better society or with "old money" (families who have inherited their wealth over many generations) were included in the list. Another criterion was a residence in the cities of Baltimore , Boston , Chicago , Cleveland , Detroit , New Orleans , New York , Philadelphia , Pittsburgh , Portland , Providence , San Francisco , Seattle and Washington, DC , the so-called "Social Register Cities".

Similar systems existed in Europe, such as B. Burke's Peerage & Landed Gentry.

literature

• Preston, Claire. Edith Wharton's social register. Macmillan, 2000.
• Broad, David B. "The social register: Directory of America's upper class." Sociological Spectrum 16.2 (1996): 173-181.
• Baltzell, E. Digby. "Who's who in America and the social register: Elite and upper class indexes in metropolitan America." Class, status, and power (1966): 266-275.