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Duveen’s relations with, 199–200, 201, 206, 207, 208, 211, 213, 214, 216–17, 220
entertainment by, 196
Henry Huntington’s marriage to, 202–3, 204, 206–7, 213–14
houses owned by, 194–95, 197, 201
in libel trial, 201–2
mansions built by, 197–99, 206
in New York society, 213–14
wealth of, 200, 201
Huntington, Clara, 187, 200–201
Huntington, Collis Potter:
art collected by, 199
background of, 185–86
death of, 200, 203
first marriage of, 186, 192, 193, 196
mansions owned by, 197–99
in New York society, 213
in railroad business, 185–87, 192, 205
tastes of, 195–96, 198–99
Worsham’s marriage to, 196–97, 203
Worsham’s premarital relations with, 188, 192–93, 195–96
Huntington, Elizabeth T. Stoddard:
child adopted by, 187
death of, 196
marriage of, 186, 192, 193
Huntington, Henry Edwards, 200–201
background of, 205
books and art collected by, 207–8, 211
business affairs of, 205–6
death of, 209
mansion built by, 206, 207
marriage of, 202–3, 204, 206–7, 213–14
Huntington, Mary Alice Prentice, 200–201, 203
Huntington, Solon, 186
Huntington Art Museum, 208, 209
Huntington Library, 208
illness, attitudes toward, 66
In a Balcony (Browning), 230
Ingersoll, Anna, 37–38
Internal Revenue Service, U.S., 280
Irving, Washington, 195
Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, 112
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 104, 107
building for, 85, 86–87
collections made for, 83, 84–85
funding of, 85–86, 91–92
after Gardner’s death, 91–92
as Gardner’s home, 88–89
Italian and Dutch emphasis in, 85
opening of, 87–88
public admitted to, 88–90
staff of, 90
works in, 81, 84–85, 88
Italian Painters of the Renaissance (Berenson), 220
I Tatti, 219
Jackson, C. D., 251
Jacque, Emile, 68
James, Henry, 68–69, 75, 76, 91
Jewish Century Country Club, 117
Jews:
attitudes toward, 84
in Cincinnati, 173–74
German, 103, 105, 106
as immigrants, 99, 105
in New Orleans, 107, 109
in New York, 105, 224, 225, 243, 224, 247
as philanthropists, 103, 238, 239
Joint Distribution Committee, 239
Jones, Adeline L., 163
J. P. Morgan & Company, 22, 34, 244
Jung, Carl, 136–37, 220
Junior League, 238–39
Kahn, Otto H., 103, 244, 245–46, 248, 250
Kaye, Danny, 272
Kimball, Fiske, 25, 36, 44–45, 47, 51–52, 168
Kimberly-Clark Corporation, 280
Krenn, Edwin, 144–45, 146, 147, 148
Kuhn, Loeb and Company, 244
La Guardia, Fiorello, 251
La Scala, Milan, 245
Lasker, Mary, 282
Lathrop, Francis M., 199
Ledge Rock Cottage, 253
Lehman brothers, 106
Leopold, Nathan, 112n
Lespinasse, Victor, 140–41
Lewis, Oscar, 198–99, 207, 213
Lincoln, Abraham, 226
Lippincott, Horace, 37
Lippmann, Walter, 85
Little Note in Yellow, A (Whistler), 67–68
Livingood, Charles J., 161–62, 166–167, 168, 169, 179
Livingood, Elizabeth, 162
Loeb, Richard, 112n
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 160
Longue Vue, 108, 117, 120
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 20, 92, 156, 282
Longworth, Maria, 156
Longworth, Nicholas, 156
Longworth, Nicholas, III, 156
Los Angeles, 205, 206
Los Angeles Times, 207
Lotus Land, 150
Lucien Alavoine et Cie, 49
McAllister, Ward, 17, 19
MacArthur, Louise Cromwell, 20, 21, 50
McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 125
McCormick, Edith Rockefeller:
in Chicago society, 127, 128–29, 132, 133
children of, 127, 130, 133, 146, 149
city planning by, 147–48, 171
death of, 148–49
in Depression, 148
dinners given by, 128–29, 130–31, 148
divorce of, 139
jewels owned by, 128
as Jung’s client, 137, 138, 141, 144, 145, 146–47, 220
kindergarten founded by, 127–28
Krenn’s relationship with, 144–45, 146, 147, 148
mansions decorated by, 129, 133
marriage of, 125
as opera patroness, 128, 130–31, 132, 133, 134, 144
personality of, 125, 130–31, 133, 134
psychoanalysis promoted by, 144–145, 146–47
scandal in marriage of, 134–35, 150
servants’ relations with, 130
songs written by, 134
trust fund established by, 147, 148
wealth of, 136, 146, 147
McCormick, Fowler, 127, 146
McCormick, Harold Fowler:
background of, 137–38
in Chicago society, 129
extramarital dalliances of, 134–35, 136, 137–38
first marriage of, 125, 149
Garden’s relations with, 137
rejuvenation operation of, 141
second marriage of, 141–43
Walska’s relations with, 138–40, 141–43
wealth of, 136
McCormick, John Rockefeller, 127, 130
McCormick, Mathilde, 127, 146
McCormick, Muriel, 127, 146
MacFettridge, Maxine, 50
McKinlock, G. Alexander, Jr., 146
MacMullan, Katherine, 30–32, 33, 43
Macomber, William V., 280
Madame X (Sargent), 76
Madonna and Child (Zurbarán), 83
Maher, James T., 15, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 208, 209
mail-order catalogues, 99–100, 101
Major Barbara (Shaw), 230
Manhattan Club, 226
Manhattan Opera House, 246
Mann, William D’Alton, 201–2, 220
Marie, Queen of Rumania, 148
Mariemont, 160–61
Mariemont, town of, 171–73, 178–79, 180–81
Mariemont Company, 171
Mariemont Messenger, 173
Marly, 48, 51
Marquand, John P., 236
Marshall, Louis, 105, 239
Marshall Field, 100, 104
Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music, 280
Mary Garden’s Story (Garden), 137
Mary Jane Morgan collection, 199
Maudsley, Henry, 273
Medici paintings, 217
Meeker, Arthur, 148, 149
Melba, Nellie, 103
Mellon, Andrew, 215, 218
Merchants of Art (Seligman), 210
Merely Mary Ann (Zangwill), 228–29, 230, 242
Metairie Country Day School, 109–10
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 280, 282
Metropolitan Opera, 242–43, 244, 245–47, 248–52
Metropolitan Opera Guild, 251–52, 253, 266
Missionary’s Story, The (Vibert), 199
Moorish salons, 195
Morgan, Elizabeth Hamilton, 231
Morgan, J. P., 20, 22, 26, 34, 86, 215
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Morris, Lloyd, 18
Mowbray, H. Siddons, 199
Mr. Isaacs: A Tale of Modern India (Crawford), 71–72
Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse (Reynolds), 207, 216–17
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, 227
Muhlenberg, Francis Swaine, 158–59
Muhlenberg, Peter, 158
Muhlenberg College, 158
Museum of Cultural History, Houston, 270
Museum of Modern Art, New York, 125, 195
Museum of the City of New York, 195
music, social fashion and, 18
National Institute of Social Sciences, 241, 253
Nesselrode, Karl, 103
Newcomb Nursery School, 109
New Deal, 44, 46
Newman, Muriel Kallis Steinberg, 282
New Orleans:
blacks in, 110, 111
Jews in, 107, 109
Mardi Gras in, 107, 110, 121
philanthropy in, 107
political corruption in, 110–11
school system in, 109
Voters Registration Service in, 110–111, 112
New Orleans Country Club, 109
New Orleans Times-Picayune, 121
Newport, 160–61, 163, 235
New York Herald, 224–25
New York Horse Show, 242
New York society:
arts as viewed by, 18
Astor’s role in, 17–18, 19–20, 49, 213, 223, 227, 244
clubs in, 226
in Depression, 246–47, 249
fashionable districts for, 194
money as central to, 31
operagoing in, 242–44, 247
social season of, 242
New York Times, 26, 140, 254
New York Town Topics, 73, 79, 83, 202, 220
New York Tribune, 197
New York World, 201
noblesse oblige, concept of, 169–70, 283
Nolan, John, 172, 180
Norton, Lillian (Nordica), 77
Nusbaum, Aaron, 100, 101–2, 104
O’Donnell, Charles, 132, 133
Oedipus and Electra complexes, 137
Ohio Mechanics’ Institute, 165
Olmstead, Frederick Law, 194
1000 Lake Shore Drive, 126, 128, 129–30, 133, 144, 148
opera, 242–47
Opera, 150
Oser, Max, 146
Packer Collegiate Institute, 159, 163, 170–71
Palmer, Bertha, 126–27, 128
Palmer, Potter, 126
Palmer House, 126
panics, economic, 20, 224
Parsifal (Wagner), 245
Pâtissier Français, 129
Patterson, Eleanor Medill, 127
Pavlovitch, Dmitri, 177
Peabody, Endicott, 79
Peabody, Mary Parkman, 170n, 281
Pennsylvania Salt Company, 47, 48
Perry, Caroline Slidell, see Belmont, Caroline Slidell Perry
Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 226
Perry, Oliver Hazard, 226
Pershing, John, 240
Philadelphia Assembly, 25, 28, 29–30
Philadelphia Bulletin, 24, 26, 28
Philadelphia Club, 25, 26, 44
Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National Upper Class (Baltzell), 24
Philadelphia Inquirer, 28
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 44, 51
Philadelphia society:
antiwork attitudes in, 24–25
Boston society vs., 55
entrances into, 26–28
food as center of, 31
as hypocritical, 33, 37, 49
institutions in, 25–26
old families in, 24, 37–38, 43, 48
“outsiders” viewed by, 24, 30, 43, 48–49
“playboys” viewed by, 41
Quakers barred from, 24
sang-froid of, 29
social maneuvering in, 31
philanthropy, 11, 43
corporations in, 280
as disorganized, 238, 239
government usurpation of, 279
Jewish, 103, 238, 239
“Ladies Bountiful” in, 169, 238
in New Orleans, 107
success in, 167
Philip II (Titian), 168
Philip IV (Velásquez), 168, 211
Pierce, Franklin, 226
Pine Knot Lodge, 199
Pinero, Arthur Wing, 229
Platt, Charles, 282
Platt, Jeffrey, 108
Platt, William, 108
“playboys,” 41, 137
Post, Emily, 202
Post, George Browne, 198
Post, Marjorie Merriweather, 282
pregnancy, attitudes toward, 65
Prentice, Alta Rockefeller, 125, 126
Prentice, Clara, 187
Prentice, Edwin, 187
Prentice, Ezra Parmalee, 126
Prinzip, Gavrilo, 263
Procter, William Cooper, 157
Procter & Gamble, 157, 181, 280
Prohibition, 36
prostitution, 102–3, 126
psychoanalysis, 136–37, 144
psychology, synthetic, 137
Quakers, 22, 24
Queensberry, Marquis of, 131–32
Rachford, Benjamin K., 163
railroad wars, 16
Rainey, Homer P., 274
Rancho San Marino, 206, 207, 208
Rape of the Taxpayer, The (Stern), 118
Rasmussen, Anne Marie, 142
Ravinia, 97, 102
Ravinia Summer Opera, 150
Reagan, Ronald, 253
Red Cross, 239–40, 253
rejuvenation operations, 140–41
Reporter, 111
Responsibility in Mental Illness (Maudsley), 273
Reynolds, Joshua, 207, 216–17
Rittenhouse Club (Philadelphia), 25–26
Robbins, Jessie, 231
Roberts, James Henry, 16–17
Robson, Charles, 227
Robson, Eleanor, see Belmont, Eleanor Robson
Rochefoucauld family, 129
Rockefeller, Barbara Sears (“Bobo”), 125, 141–42
Rockefeller, Edith, see McCormick, Edith Rockefeller
Rockefeller, Ethel, 125
Rockefeller, Geraldine, 133–34
Rockefeller, John D., 20, 125, 137–138, 147, 157, 195, 197
Rockefeller, John D., Jr., 148, 195
Rockefeller, Nelson, 125
Rockefeller, Steven, 142
Rockefeller, William G., 125
Rockefeller, Winthrop, 141–42
Rockefeller-Dodge mansion, 133–34
Rockefeller Family Fund, 280
Rockefeller Foundation, 280
Roebuck, Alvah Curtis, 99
Roman Singer, A (Crawford), 75
Rookwood Pottery, 156
Roosevelt, Alice, 20, 92, 156, 282
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 251, 252, 272, 282
Roosevelt, Franklin, 44, 46, 50, 249, 251, 253, 270
Roosevelt, Theodore, 20, 97
Rosenbach, A. S. W., 207, 208
Rosenwald, Adele, 97
Rosenwald, Augusta Nusbaum, 97–98, 100, 102
Rosenwald, Edith, see Stern, Edith Rosenwald
Rosenwald, Julius:
background of, 97, 98, 100–101, 126
as benevolent despot, 112
black schools built by, 103, 105, 110, 111
contributions to Stern house by, 108
as employer, 102–3
as philanthropist, 103–4, 105–6
Sears, Roebuck purchased by, 101–102
Rosenwald, Lessing, 97
Rosenwald, Marion, 97, 98, 104, 111, 114, 116, 119
Rosenwald, William, 97, 98, 106, 112n, 119
Rosenwald Fellowships, 103
Rosenwald Schools, 103
Rose Terrace, 40, 41
Rothschild, House of, 224, 225
Rubinstein, Artur, 277
Rudolph Kann collecti
on, 201
Rural Free Delivery, 98–99
Ruskin, John, 214
Saarinen, Aline, 10
Saga of American Society, The (Wecter), 223–24
Saint-Désert tapestries, 74
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 75
Salomé (Strauss), 131, 132–33
Salomy Jane (Harte), 230
San Francisco, 204, 205
San Francisco earthquake, 204
San Francisco Examiner, 187
Santayana, George, 78
Sargent, John Singer:
in Boston society, 75
as controversial, 76
Gardner’s portrait painted by, 80–81, 91
Gardner’s relations with, 77, 79
Sarnoff, David, 252
Scarlet Letter, The (Hawthorne), 196
Schiff, Jacob, 103, 105, 239, 243, 244
Sears, Richard, 99–100, 101, 102
Sears, Roebuck & Company:
as big corporation, 118
catalogues for, 99–100
founding of, 100–101
market for, 105–6
Rosenwald’s control of, 102, 104, 112
Stern’s involvement in, 116, 117
wages at, 102–3
Sears, Willard T., 85, 86–87
Sears Tower, 121
Secrets of an Art Dealer, The (Duveen), 193
Sedgwick, Ellery, 79–80
Seligman, Germain, 210
Shangri-La (Doris Duke’s estate), 50
Shaw, George Bernard, 229–30, 241, 253–254
Shaw, Patricia, 252
Siddons, Sarah, 217
Sinton, David, 164
Sinton Hotel, 177
Sketch for a Self-Portrait (Berenson), 219
Smith, Alva, 231
Social Register, 17, 25, 200
social responsibility, era of, 40
Society for the Prevention of Useless Giving, 239
Southern Pacific Railroad, 185, 205
Speyer, Mrs. James, 239
Speyer Animal Hospital, 239
Sprague, William B., 170–71
Stanford, Leland, 185, 186
State Department, U.S., 33
Staub, John, 268, 269
Stern, Audrey, 109, 113, 118
Stern, Edgar:
background of, 106
business affairs of, 106, 114, 117
death of, 118
as Jewish, 113
marriage of, 104, 111, 112, 117
in New Orleans society, 109, 121
philanthropy of, 117–18
Stern, Edgar, Jr., 109, 113–14, 118–119, 121
Stern, Edith Rosenwald:
art collected by, 120
background of, 97, 102, 104, 281
in black rights work, 110, 111
children of, 109, 112, 113, 117
death of, 119–20
elections investigated by, 110
as Jewish, 113
mansions built by, 107–8, 116, 117, 120
marriage of, 104, 106
in New Orleans, 106–7, 108–9, 120–21
parties given by, 108–9, 115–16
personality of, 102, 104, 111–13
in progressive education, 109–10, 127
servants’ relations with, 113, 116–117
in Stern Fund work, 117–18, 119
in tax litigation, 113–14