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Family Relics

Found Material That Contributed to The Fifth Avenue Artists Society

THESE ARE SOME of my most treasured Lynch family mementos—relics that gave life to stories that at times seemed too romantic to be real. When I look at this collection, only fragments of full lives, it is as if they are reaching through time to remind me—We promise. We were here.

Virginia’s passport applications

Several photos of Virginia, Alevia, Alice, and Anne

Virginia Lynch

Alevia VanPelt Lynch (mother)

Alice Lynch Gorton (Mae)

Anne Broome Lynch (Bess)

Portrait of Alevia Rulgate Lynch

Alevia, the pianist

Bernhardt Wall’s sketch of the Lynch home

Photo of the Lynch home

Alevia (mother) and William in front of their home, 1895

Washington Irving Footprints

Written by Virginia Lynch; etched by Bernhardt Wall

Other material that contributed to The Fifth Avenue Artists Society

•      Virginia’s diaries—three years

•      Virginia’s obituary

•      Virginia’s article in The Bronx Review titled “An Old Bronx Home”

•      Virginia’s handkerchiefs

•      Several mentions of Alevia playing at parties in the New York Times

•      Three of Virginia’s paintings

•      Old maps of Mott Haven

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