Specific to the United States, the Social Register is a directory of names and addresses of prominent American families who form the social elite. Inclusion in the Social Register has historically been limited to members of polite society, or those with "old money", within the Social Register cities of Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Portland, Providence, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, DC, as well as ones for "Southern Cities". In European countries, similar directories of the upper-class, such as Burke's Peerage & Landed Gentry in the United Kingdom, have been published for hundreds of years.
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