"The view from the `underside' of America's expansive new society is relatively well known to photography lovers, thanks to such documentary artists as Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine. The view from the other side--the perspective of the managerial rather than the working class--is not so widely known, and that is one of the reasons that the work of Loring Underwood and Wm. Lyman Underwood, the junior heirs to an industrial fortune, is so interesting."--from the introduction.