page_title: The Four Hundred (1892)
section_title: Named members of "The Four Hundred"
hierarchical_section_title: The Four Hundred (1892) / Named members of "The Four Hundred"
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt in her costume of a "Venetian Renaissance Lady" at the Vanderbilt Ball held at 660 Fifth Avenue, on March 26, 1883
context_page_description: The Four Hundred was a list of New York society during the Gilded Age, a group that was led by Caroline Schermerhorn Astor, the Mrs. Astor, for many years. After her death, her role in society was filled by three women: Mamie Fish, Theresa Fair Oelrichs, and Alva Belmont, known as the "triumvirate" of American society.
  On February 16, 1892, The New York Times published the "official" list of those included in the Four Hundred as dictated by social arbiter Ward McAllister, Mrs. Astor's friend and confidante, in response to lists proffered by others, and after years of clamoring by the Press to know who, exactly, was on the list.
context_section_description: Besides containing far fewer than 400 people, McAllister's list "abounded in inaccuracies: names were misspelled or incomplete and many spouses omitted or, worse, included although they were dead."  The rules of the time dictated that "only the eldest unmarried daughter of a family carried the title "Miss," with no given name," but he regularly ignored the rule.
caption: Photograph of Alva Smith Vanderbilt at her 1883 Ball. Alva, the first wife of William K. Vanderbilt and second wife of Oliver Belmont, was one of Mrs. Astor's successors.
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