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Wounded soldiers, Victory Way (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded February 2017
Volunteers, New York (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded May 2015
Library of Congress staff photographing First Presbyterian Church in Tallahassee, Florida from Florida Memory uploaded February 2014
Home of Mrs. A.G. Vanderbilt (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded February 2013
Molla Bjurstedt (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded April 2012
Alberta Weber (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded April 2012
Original Symonds School in Keene New Hampshire from Keene Public Library and the Historical Society of Cheshire County uploaded February 2011
N.Y. Central Station, N.Y. (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded November 2010
Murray Hill Hotel, from Park Avenue and 40th Street, Manhatt... from New York Public Library uploaded December 2008
Murray Hill Hotel, Manhattan. from New York Public Library uploaded December 2008
Murray Hill Hotel, Manhattan. from New York Public Library uploaded December 2008
Murray Hill Hotel, 112 Park Avenue, Manhattan. from New York Public Library uploaded December 2008
St. Bartholomew's, Waldorf Astoria, General Electric Buildin... from New York Public Library uploaded December 2008
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Park Avenue House in Keene New Hampshire
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- Sharen Auger-Rizy said:
Home of Mrs. A.G. Vanderbilt (LOC)
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Barbara Tozier said:
AG is likely Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. The "Mrs" is unclear to me. He divorced his first wife ca. 1909, and remarried 1911. He died on the Lusitania.
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Art Siegel said:
The widow was born Margaret Emerson, herself an heiress of the Bromo Seltzer fortune:
"[Isaac Edward] Emerson's daughter Margaret married at 18 to Dr. Smith Hollins McKim. They became social leaders in New York's high society. But in 1910 she brought a sensational divorce suit against her husband, claiming he beat her in drunken rages. She remarried in 1911, this time to Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt I, one of the wealthiest men in America having inherited the bulk of his father's fortune in 1889. They had two sons, Alfred Gwynne Jr. and George. Tragically, while traveling to England on business, Alfred Sr. heroically lost his life in the sinking of RMS Lusitania by torpedo in 1915. Margaret inherited her husband's fortune (as well as the bulk of her father's fortune when he died). One son from this marriage, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt II went on to become one of the driving forces behind thoroughbred racing in America. Margaret married two more times, both ending in divorce. In 1931 she legally resumed her maiden name."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Isaac_Edward_Emerson
Margaret Emerson's obituary from January, 1960:
select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D06E4DD1138E333...
A.G. Vanderbilt in another Bain photo:
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swanq said:
hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.05295 is a picture of Mrs. Mckim/Vanderbilt from the Bain collection -- not yet uploaded to Flickr.
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Art Siegel said:
I haven't been able to identify this building. Sources I have consulted say she was living at the Vanderbilt Hotel at the time the Lusitania sank.
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swanq said:
And I've found two houses she owned at some point but which it isn't: The Gould house on Fifth Avenue and Eat 67th shown in www.oldpokerchips.com/NonNevada/Gould.htm And a grand house in London, which he left her in his will according to NYT of May 30, 1915 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50B17F9385C13738... Gloucester House at Piccadilly and Park Lane pictured at www.amsprop.com/gloucester_house/index.html
Library of Congress staff photographing First Presbyterian Church in Tallahassee, Florida
from Florida Memory
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Florida Memory said:
Accompanying note: "Jack E. Boucher, right, prepares to photograph the First Presbyterian Church on Adams street at Park avenue, for preservation in the Library of Congress as Chester Lee Kraft talks with him. The Church is one of six historical structures in the Tallahassee area selected for the national archives by the Historic American Building Survey of the National Park Service. Boucher is with the Survey in Washington. Kraft represents the North Central Florida Chapter of the American Institute of Architects which is cooperating."