Academy of Music, New York, 18
Adams, Abigail, 55–56
Adams, Brooks, 56
Adams, Henry, 56
Adams, James Truslow, 58
Adams, John, 56
Adams, John Quincy, 56
Adopt-a-Family Committee, 241
Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, 282
Allom, Charles, 36
Always Room at the Top (Walska), 139, 142–43
American Medical Association, 140
American Oil Treating and Hardening Company, 158
American Register, 201
American Tobacco Company, 45
Aquitania, 138–39
Arizona (Thomas), 228
art:
American Renaissance in, 74–75, 282
for art’s sake, 131
Boston society’s views on, 67, 68
European patrons of, 67
New York society’s views on, 18
tastes in, 217
art collections, American:
American Renaissance represented in, 74–75, 282
fraud and forgery in, 240–41
French and Italian works favored in, 59
grandes dames as custodians of, 10–11, 67, 280–81
guilt feelings associated with, 211, 212
IRS stipulations on, 280
matriarchal domination in, 59
New American Masters in, 74–75
prices paid for, 86, 211, 240–41
Ascoli, Marion Rosenwald, see Rosenwald, Marion
Ascoli, Max, 111
Astor, Brooke, 282
Astor, Caroline:
dinner parties given by, 17–19, 127
in New York Society, 17, 49, 213, 223, 227
operas attended by, 18, 27, 243
personality of, 17
Astor, Vincent, 282
August Belmont & Company, 224
Austerity Castle, 116–17
Austin Statesman, 187
Bacon, Mrs. Robert Low, 282
Bakhmeteff, George, 236
Barnard College, 159
Baron de Hirsch Fund, 201
Barrie, James M., 229
Barrymore, John, 230
Barrymore, Lionel, 230
Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 71
Baume, Germaine de, 50
Beatles, 275
Beaux, Cecilia, 75
Beebe, Lucius, 267
Belmont, August:
art collected by, 226
background of, 223–25
children of, 231
Christianization of, 225–26
death of, 226
marriage of, 225–26
in New York society, 226–27
race track built by, 226
Belmont, August, Jr.:
background of, 231
death of, 247
first marriage of, 231
race horses owned by, 237–38
second marriage of, 231–32, 233, 234
Belmont, Caroline Slidell Perry:
background of, 226
children of, 231
in New York society, 227
Belmont, Eleanor Robson:
as actress, 92–93, 228–29, 230, 232, 281
appearance of, 247–48
art collected by, 241
background of, 227–28
death of, 254
entertaining by, 235
honors received by, 253–54
as opera patroness, 241, 242, 247, 248–50, 251–52, 254, 266
philanthropy of, 238, 239–40, 241, 252–53, 280
as racing enthusiast, 236–38
Shaw’s relations with, 229–30, 241
as society hostess, 235–36
Belmont, Fredericka Elsaas, 225
Belmont, Oliver Hazard Perry, 231
Belmont, Perry, 231
Belmont, Simon, 225
Belmont Park Race Track, 226
Berenson, Bernard:
classic work by, 220
Duveen’s relations with, 214–15, 217–19
Gardner’s relations with, 83–84, 86, 91, 215
as Italian Renaissance art expert, 83, 166, 215–16, 220, 241
memoirs of, 219
Berenson, Mrs. Bernard, 218
Biddle, Mrs. Alexander, 48
Biddle, Edward, 25
Biddle, Emily Drexel, 25
Bigelow, Henry J., 61
Big Four, The (Lewis), 198–99
Billy Rose Sculpture Garden, 120
Birley, Oswald, 209
blacks, Rosenwalds and, 103, 105, 110, 111
Blashfield, Edwin H., 199
Blue Boy, The (Gainsborough), 207, 211, 216
Bockius, Morris, 44
Bohemians, opera and, 244
Borgia, Lucrezia, 15
Boston Assemblies, 64
Boston Brahmins, 281
Boston Opera House, 59
Boston society:
as “conventionally independent,” 56
Germans in, 64
intellectual life in, 55
liberalism of, 55
old families in, 60
Philadelphia society vs., 55
ritual visiting in, 63
Sewing Circle in, 63–64
Boston Transcript, 260
Brooklyn Museum, 195
Browning, Robert, 230
Bunche, Ralph, 103
Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 232
Calder, Alexander, 120
Callas, Maria, 131
Carew Tower, 158
Carmody, Deirdre, 254
Carnegie Museum, 104
Carter, Boake, 43
Carter, Morris, 86
Caruso, Enrico, 245
Casals, Pablo, 91
Cassatt, Alexander, 42
Cassatt, Mary, 75
Central Pacific Railroad, 185, 205
chandeliering, 64
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, 192
Chicago:
Charity Ball in, 127
psychoanalysis in, 144–45
public morality in, 132–33
society life in, 126–28
Chicago Institute of Art, 127
Chicago Opera Company, 128, 130–131, 132–33, 134, 137, 138, 139, 144
Chicago with Love (Meeker), 148
Child Guidance Center of Houston, 274–75
Children of the Ghetto (Zangwill), 228
Children of the King (Crawford), 71
Cincinnati:
early years of, 155–56
ethnic composition of, 159
as Losantiville, 155
old families in, 156
prosperity of, 156–57
Cincinnati Art Museum, 168, 179
Cincinnati Enquirer, 173, 174–78, 179–180
Civil War, U.S., 164, 190, 226
Cleveland, Grover, 16
Clews, Elsie, 235
coal mining, 39
Cochran, Alexander Smith, 138–40
Colby, Olive, 149
Colton mansion, 199
Congress, U.S., 185
Connally, John, 276
Connally, Nellie, 278
Conried, Heinrich, 245
Cook, Augustus, 227
Coolidge, Calvin, 116
Crawford, Frank Marion:
background of, 69–70
Gardner’s relations with, 70, 71–74, 77, 81, 91
Cromwell, Charles Thorn, 16
Cromwell, James Henry Roberts, 233
background of, 38–39
on Eva Stotesbury, 42–43, 45, 47–48, 49–51, 279
first marriage of, 40–41, 45, 50
as New Dealer, 45–46
on Philadelphia society, 49
poverty viewed by, 39
Cromwell, Oliver, 17
Cromwell, Oliver, Jr., 50
Cromwell, Oliver Eaton, 16, 17, 20, 21
Custom of the Country, The (Wharton), 74
Daisy Miller (James), 68
Damrosch, Walter, 140
dances, customs at, 64
Daniel Frawley Stock Company, 227–228
Davison, Henry P., 240
Dawn of Tomorrow, The (Burnett), 232
Dedmon, Emmett, 133
d’Engor, Arcadie, 138
Depression of 1929, 43, 44, 148, 179, 246–47
Devereux, Mrs. Arthur, 173–74
Devereux, Marion, 173, 174–78, 179–180, 195
Dickens, Charles, 160
Dillman, Hugh, 45
Djordjadze, Dmitri, 177
Dodge, Anna, 40, 41, 45, 48, 220
Dodge, Geraldine Rockefeller, 133–34
Dodge, Horace, 40–41, 45, 212, 233
Dodge, Marcellus Huntley, 125
Dodge Corporation, 45
Douglas, Alfred, 132
Dr. Claudius (Crawford), 71
Duke, James Buchanan, 45
Duke, Nanaline Inman, 45
du Maurier, Gerald, 230
Dürer, Albrecht, 214
Duveen, Elsie, 213
Duveen, James Henry, 193
Duveen, Joel Joseph, 215
Duveen, Joseph:
in art-dealer rivalry, 241
background of, 218
Berenson’s relations with, 214–15, 217–19
collecting eminence of, 220
Huntington’s relations with, 199–200, 201, 206, 207, 208, 211, 213, 214, 216–17, 220
in lawsuits, 214–15
Stotesbury’s relations with, 33–34, 36, 38, 42, 47, 84, 86, 167–68, 220
tactics of, 212–13
Edgar B. Stern Family Fund, 117–19
Edgecliffe, 159–60
education:
English model for, 59
for preschoolers, 127
private philanthropy for, 238
as progressive, 109
Eiffel Tower, 196
Eldridge, William, 23
Eliot, T. S., 78
Ellis, A. Caswell, 273
Emergency Unemployment Relief Committee, 241, 252
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 91
Emery, Albert, 161
Emery, Audrey, 177
Emery, John Josiah, 156, 157–58, 177
Emery, Julia, 157
Emery, Kezia, 157
Emery, Mary:
art collected by, 161, 167–68, 179, 215
background of, 158–59
children of, 161–62
city planning by, 171–73, 178–79, 180–81
death of, 178–79
Devereux’s relations with, 177–78
Livingood’s relations with, 161–62, 166–67, 168, 169, 179
mansions built by, 159–61
philanthropy of, 162, 163–66, 167, 168, 169, 170–73, 178–79, 280
young protégés of, 166
Emery, Sheldon, 161
Emery, Thomas Josephus, Jr.:
background of, 156
business affairs of, 157–58
death of, 162
Memorial Fund for, 163–64, 179, 180, 181
Emery Auditorium, 164–65
Emery Candle Company, 157, 158
Emmet, Alida Chanler, 282
Erté, 149
Evans, Cerinda W., 188–90
Fabric of Memory, The (Belmont), 232
Fabulous Chicago (Dedmon), 133
Farrar, John, 252
Farwell, Arthur, 132
Fate of Marvin, The (Hogg), 258
feminism, 127, 171, 193, 281, 282
Fenway Court, see Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Field, Marshall, 100
Filson, John, 155
Finletter, Thomas K., 236
Finn, Mickey, 126
Fish, Mrs. Stuyvesant, 235, 236
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 179
Flagstad, Kirsten, 250–51
Fleischman, Gladys, 112n
Fleming, John F., 208
Ford Foundation, 280
Four Hundred, origin of, 17–18
Fraenkel, Joseph, 138
Franks, Bobby, 112n
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke, 263
Franz Josef, Emperor, 263
Frawley, Daniel, 228–29
Freud, Sigmund, 136–37
Frick Museum, 104
Fuller, Melville W., 16
furniture, American, 261–62
Gambetta, Léon, 76
Gamble, James, 157
Garden, Mary, 131, 132–33, 137
Garden Clubs of America, 112
Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 227
art museum built by, see Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
as art patroness, 66–68, 76–77, 83–85
Berenson’s relations with, 83–84, 86, 91, 215
in Boston society, 63–64, 69, 74, 77–78
Crawford’s relations with, 69–70, 71–74, 75–76, 77, 81, 91
at dances, 64–65
illnesses of, 63, 64, 65, 66, 76, 85
James’s relations with, 68–69
nervous breakdowns of, 66, 76, 85
Sargent’s portraits of, 80–81, 91
Sargent’s relations with, 77, 79
sexual life of, 72–73
son born to, 65–66
unconventional behavior of, 55, 61–62, 77–78, 82–83
Whistler’s portrait of, 67–68
Zorn’s portrait of, 90
Gardner, John Lowell, Jr.:
background of, 60–61
child born to, 65
Crawford’s relations with, 72, 73–74
death of, 85
portrait withdrawn by, 81
Gardner, John Lowell, III, 65
Gardner, Joseph, 60
Gatti-Casazza, Giulio, 245, 246, 251
Gautreau, Madame, 76
General Motors Corporation, 118
Gereuth, Maurice de Hirsch de, 201
Germans, Boston, 64
Giorgione, Il, 218
Gizycka, Felicia, 127
Gizycki, Count Josef, 127
golf, 234
Gould, Jay, 223
grandes dames:
as art custodians, 10–11, 67, 280–81
as displaced by corporations, 280
essential qualities of, 9–11, 15, 281
government’s discouragement of, 280
new vs. old types of, 282–83
philanthropy of, 11
Proud Possessors vs., 10–11
selection of, 11
sexist view of, 257
as “vanishing breed,” 279–83
Grant, Frederick Dent, 127
Grant, Ulysses S., 127
Gréber, Jacques, 36
Greeley, Horace, 224–25
Green, Marion, 166
Grey, Edward, 263
Guest, Edgar, 99
Guggenheim Foundation, 280
Hackett, Charles, 166
Hammerslough family, 101
Hammerstein, Oscar, I, 246
Happy Profession, The (Sedgwick), 79–80
Harlow, Alvin, 180
Harris, Leon, 120
Harrison, Benjamin, 231
Harte, Bret, 230
Havemeyer, Frederick C., 197
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 196
Henderson, Isaac, 194
Henderson, Nathalie, 239
Hepworth, Barbara, 120
Hess, Tom, 113
Heyneman, Julie Helen, 77
Histoire Héliodore, 129
Hogg, Ima:
art collected by, 262–63
background of, 258–59, 260–61, 281
buildings restored by, 275–76
death of, 277–78
egalitarianism of, 267
entertaining by, 269–70
as horse enthusiast, 263–64
interests of, 261–62, 265, 272–73, 275–76
mansion built by, 268–69
in mental-health work, 273–75
naming of, 257–59
oil wealth of, 265
personality of, 257–58, 270–71
as spinster, 259
Symphony Society founded by, 266–67
WPA supported by, 270–71
Hogg, James Stephen, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 265, 266, 273
Hogg, Mike, 258, 259, 261, 266, 268
Hogg, Sallie Stinson, 258, 259
Hogg, Thomas Elisha, 258
Hogg, Tom, 258, 259, 261, 266n
Hogg, Will, 258, 259, 261, 266, 268, 273, 274
Hogg Foundation, 273–75
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 281
Homans, Abigail Adams, 55–56
Homestead, The, 197
Honeymoon Cottage, 275
Hopkins, Mary, see Emery, Mary
Hopkins, Richard H., 159
horse racing, 237–38
Hotchkiss, Maria, 212
Houdini, Harry, 235
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, 263, 276–77
Houston Post, 272
Houston Symphony Society, 266–67
Howe, Julia Ward, 69
Hubbard, Elisha Dyer, 146
Hundred Year Association, 254
Hunt, Myron, 206
Hunt, Richard Morris, 197–98
Huntington, Arabella Duval Yarrington Worsham:
appearance of, 187–88, 196, 209
art collected by, 199–200, 201, 207, 208, 210, 211, 216
background of, 187–90, 191–92, 281
Birley’s portrait of, 208–9
Collis Huntington’s marriage to, 196–97
Collis Huntington’s premarital relations with, 188, 192–93, 195–196
death of, 209
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
Huntington, Clara, 187, 200–201
Huntington, Collis Potter:
art collected by, 199
background of, 185–86
first marriage of, 186, 192, 193, 196
mansions owned by, 197–99
in New York society, 213
in railroad business, 185–87, 192, 205
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
Huntington, Henry Edwards, 200–201
background of, 205
books and art collected by, 207–8, 211
business affairs of, 205–6
death of, 209
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
collections made for, 83, 84–85
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
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
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
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
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 20, 92, 156, 282
Longworth, Maria, 156
Longworth, Nicholas, 156
Longworth, Nicholas, III, 156
Los Angeles Times, 207
Lotus Land, 150
Lucien Alavoine et Cie, 49
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
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
McCormick, Harold Fowler:
background of, 137–38
in Chicago society, 129
extramarital dalliances of, 134–35, 136, 137–38
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
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
Marquand, John P., 236
Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music, 280
Mary Garden’s Story (Garden), 137
Mary Jane Morgan collection, 199
Maudsley, Henry, 273
Medici paintings, 217
Melba, Nellie, 103
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
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
Newman, Muriel Kallis Steinberg, 282
New Orleans:
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
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
fashionable districts for, 194
money as central to, 31
social season of, 242
New York Town Topics, 73, 79, 83, 202, 220
New York Tribune, 197
New York World, 201
noblesse oblige, concept of, 169–70, 283
Norton, Lillian (Nordica), 77
Nusbaum, Aaron, 100, 101–2, 104
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, Potter, 126
Palmer House, 126
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 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
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
corporations in, 280
government usurpation of, 279
“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
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
psychology, synthetic, 137
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 Summer Opera, 150
Reagan, Ronald, 253
rejuvenation operations, 140–41
Reporter, 111
Responsibility in Mental Illness (Maudsley), 273
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
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
Rothschild, House of, 224, 225
Rubinstein, Artur, 277
Rudolph Kann collection, 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
Salomy Jane (Harte), 230
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 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 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
State Department, U.S., 33
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
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
Voters Service founded by, 110–11, 120
Stern, Philip, 109, 112, 117, 118, 119, 120
Stern Fund, 117–19
Stevenson, Adlai E., 118
Stewart, Adelia Smith, 57–58, 59
Stewart, David, 57, 59, 62, 82
Stewart Iron Company, 57
Stillman, Anne, 146
Stones of Venice, The (Ruskin), 214
Stotesbury, Edward T. (Ned),
anti-New Deal views of, 46
art collected by, 33
background of, 22–23
business affairs of, 20, 22, 34, 39, 43, 46
death of, 46
in Depression, 43–44
first marriage of, 23
in Philadelphia society, 24–26, 27–28, 29–30, 36–37, 48
on poverty, 39
second marriage of, 23–24, 26, 41
Stotesbury, Fanny Butcher, 23
Stotesbury, Lucretia (Eva) Bishop Roberts:
art collected by, 33–34, 36, 44–45, 47, 51–52, 68, 84, 86, 168, 215, 220
children born to, 19
death of, 51
Duveen’s relations with, 33–34, 36, 38, 42, 47, 84, 86, 167–68, 220
fatal flaw of, 38
financial difficulties of, 46–47, 48
first marriage of, 16–17, 20, 21
jewels owned by, 26, 27–28, 32, 36–37
mansions built by, 34, 35, 37, 41–42, 107
in New York society, 17, 20–21
parties given by, 20, 31–33, 36–37, 41, 44, 49
personal sense of theatre of, 15, 32, 49
in Philadelphia society, 24, 26–28, 29–30, 31–33, 35, 36–37, 38, 48–49, 56
philanthropy of, 43
on social responsibility, 11, 39–40
Strauss, Richard, 131
Stud Book, 237
Sulzberger, Germon, 106n
Sunset, 207
Supreme Court, U.S., 16
Sutherland, Robert L., 274
Symmes, John Cleves, 155
Taft, Annie Sinton, 156, 164, 165
Temple Emanu-El, 101
Ternina, Milka, 242
Tetrazzini, Luisa, 103–4
Théâtre des Champs Elysées, 149
Theodore Roosevelt Association, 254
Thomas, Augustus, 228
Thomas Emery’s Sons, Incorporated, 157–58
Titian, 218
Toscanini, Arturo, 245, 246, 272
Tragedy of Lucretia, The (Botticelli), 84
Tree, Marietta, 170n
Trumbauer, Horace, 36
Tuskegee Institute, 105
Twilight of Splendor, The (Maher), 189
Twitchell Process Company, 158
Tyler, George, 230
United Appeal, 239
United Jewish Appeal, 239
Up from Slavery (Washington), 105
Vanderbilt, Consuelo, 231
Vanderbilt, Grace, 235–36
Vanderbilt, William H., 194, 197, 213
Vanderbilt, William K., 231, 245
Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Alexander, 48
Vassar College, 159
Vedder, Elihu, 199
Vernon Children, The (Romney), 47
Vibert, Jean Georges, 199
Violet Note (Whistler), 68
Waite, Morrison R., 16
Wallis, Gladys, 228
Walska, Ganna, 138–40, 141, 142–43, 149–51
Walt Disney World, 115–16
War Council, U.S., 240
Ward, Aaron Montgomery, 99
Ward, Sam, 73
Warren, Frances, 126
Washington, Booker T., 105
Washington Post, 118
Washington society, 31
Waterford Jack (Frances Warren), 126
WDSU Broadcasting, New Orleans, 118
wealth:
in Depression, 43
noblesse oblige and, 40, 169–70, 283
values associated with, 169–70, 178, 283
Wecter, Dixon, 223–24
Weeks, Edward, 91
Weidenfeld, Camille, 187
Wellesley College, 9–10
Wheeler, Alvin, 269
Whistler, James McNeill, 67–68
Whitemarsh Hall, 35–36, 37, 43, 44, 46–47, 48, 107
Whitney, Sarah Swan, 231
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 91
Who’s Who: A Society Register … for Cincinnati (Devereux), 173–74
Who’s Who in America, 118
Wilde, Oscar, 131–32
Wildenbourg, Prince François-Edmond-Joseph-Gabriel Vit de und von Hatzfeldt, 200
Wilson, Adah, 149
Wolff, Edwin, II, 208
Women’s Trade Union League, 231
Working Girls’ Vacation Association, 239
Works Progress Administration (WPA), 270–71
World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, 100, 126, 127
World War II, 34
Worsham, Annette, 191
Worsham, Arabella Duval, see Huntington, Arabella Duval Yarrington Worsham
Worsham, Archer Milton, 191, 193, 200–201
Worsham, Johnny, 190, 191–92, 195, 197
Worth, Graham A., 156
Yarrington, Arabella Duval, see Huntington, Arabella Duval Yarrington Worsham
Yarrington, Catherine, 189, 190–91, 192, 194
Yarrington, Richard, 189
Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA), 163, 164
Zangwill, Israel, 228–29
Zaza (Leoncavallo), 139
Zorn, Anders, 90–91
Zurbarán, Francisco de, 83