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The Gilded GentlemanJune 8, 2022
The tale of two artist's models named Hettie Anderson and Thomas McKeller -- their stories little known until recent years -- and the magnificent art they inspired. These muses are the subject of this week’s episode of The Gilded Gentleman podcast. Gazing up at the dramatic…
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In 1857 Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell threw open the doors to the New York Infirmary for Women and Children at 58 Bleecker Street, revolutionary as being…
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Over fifteen hundred people died the night the Titanic sank, April 14-15, 1912. The early reports from the New York newspapers, of course, spent their time…
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On November 19, 1895, Calvert Vaux went for a morning walk from his son's home in Brooklyn. He never returned. The 70 year old architect had…
When park designers Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux regrouped after the success of Central Park to design another great park for Brooklyn -- encompassing Prospect…
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