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Mary Cummings
Mar 30, 202113 min read
High Style in the Gilded Age: Millicent Rogers
(MARY) MILLICENT ABIGAIL ROGERS (1902-1953) By the time the stunning granddaughter of Standard Oil magnate Henry Huddleston Rogers Sr....
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Mary Cummings
Mar 2, 202111 min read
High Style in the Gilded Age: Frances Breese Miller
FRANCES (TANTY) BREESE MILLER 1893-1985 Frances Breese Miller lives a life in two acts. In the first, she is born into the mannered...
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Mary Cummings
Feb 2, 202110 min read
High Style in the Gilded Age: Grace Clarke Newton
GRACE CLARKE NEWTON - The Poet There is mystery and romance in Grace Clarke Newton’s story, though as the daughter of the noted...
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Mary Cummings
Jan 15, 20218 min read
High Style in the Gilded Age: The Cryder Triplets
THE CRYDER TRIPLETS - THE CELEBRITY SISTERS b: 1882 (Edith, d: 1954; Ethel, d: 1964; Elsie, d: 1981) Cryder Memorial Window, St. Andrew’s...
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Mary Cummings
Jan 8, 20218 min read
High Style in the Gilded Age: Consuelo Vanderbilt
CONSUELO VANDERBILT BALSAN (1877-1964) - THE PAWN Consuelo Vanderbilt was a willowy beauty of 17 when the 26-year-old Frenchman and...
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Mary Cummings
Jan 1, 20216 min read
High Style in the Gilded Age: Rose de Rose
Rose de Rose (1902-1982) The High Society Misfit Left - Rose de Rose with her father at 6 and a half years old Right - Rose de Rose with...
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Mary Cummings
Dec 22, 202011 min read
High Style in the Gilded Age: Ruth Wales du Pont
Ruth Wales du Pont (1887-1967) Ruth Wales, born in 1889, is raised in Hyde Park, New York, and spends much of her adult life in Delaware...
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Mary Cummings
Dec 18, 20208 min read
High Style in the Gilded Age: Louisa Robb Livingston
Louisa Van Renssalaer Robb Livingston (1877-1960) In light of her later reputation as a fierce defender of Old Guard ways, and a sharp...
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Mary Cummings
Dec 11, 20209 min read
High Style in the Gilded Age: Lily Barney
Lily Whitney Barney (1852-1946) The Dedicated Socialite Now, while the museum remains closed, I have been deepening my research into the...
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Mary Cummings
Dec 4, 20207 min read
High Style in the Gilded Age: Jeanette Ralston Chase Hoyt
A few weeks ago we started including the staff lectures in our blog posts as a means to digitally archive everything we produce in one...
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Mary Cummings
Dec 1, 202010 min read
High Style in the Gilded Age: Jessie Woolworth Donahue
JESSIE WOOLWORTH DONAHUE - THE STRIVER (1886-1971) In the sad saga of Jessie Woolworth Donahue’s life, there is dramatic proof that money...
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Mary Cummings
Nov 3, 20208 min read
High Style in the Gilded Age: Caroline Helen Parrish Brown
If you missed my talk on Caroline Helen Parrish Brown you can watch the recording below. Or keep scrolling and you can view all the...
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