Mansions, parties, and fine dining: Vintage photos show how America's wealthiest business tycoons lived it up during the Gilded Age

Members of New York high society John S. Milburn, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt III, Stuyvesant Fish, James Roosevelt Roosevelt, and Cornelius Vanderbilt III.

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• In the late 1800s, tycoons amassed huge fortunes in America and weren't shy about showing them off.
• They spent conspicuously, from fancy clothes to European mansions to lavish masked balls.
• The Gilded Age also featured an underbelly of corruption and inequality.

The adage goes that money can't buy happiness...