Tag: Consuelo Vanderbilt
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Video of the Week: High Style in the Gilded Age: Consuelo Vanderbilt The Pawn
Mary Cummings presented this 24-minute presentation on Consuelo Vanderbilt for the Southampton History Museum.
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A Historical Fiction Novel of Consuelo Vanderbilt: American Duchess by Karen Harper
Bestselling author Karen Harper has written a historical fiction novel of Consuelo Vanderbilt called American Duchess.
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Mystery Friday Foto #31: Consuelo, Birdie and Alva Vanderbilt and the daughters of Gertrude Whitney
This weekend's challenging Mystery Foto documented five Vanderbilt women together at a special event.
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From the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum: The Vanderbilts: A Century of Military Service
Stephanie Gress, director of curatorial affairs for the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum, has forwarded this article on how the Vanderbilt family have served our country for over one hundred years.
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Mystery Foto #52 Solved: Willie K. and the Vanderbilt Family Cruising on the Nile River in 1888
Our final Mystery Foto of 2015 was a historic image of the Vanderbilt Family. Photo courtesy of the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum.
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Mystery Foto #48 Solved: Duchess of Marlborough Leaving the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race Grandstand
Here was a real challenging Mystery Foto for the holiday weekend.
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Consuelo Vanderbilt, the Duchess of Marlborough: A Real Downton Heiress
In 1895, Consuelo Vanderbilt, 18-year old sister of William K. Vanderbilt, Jr, was "encouraged" by her mother Alva to marry Englands's Duke of Marlborough. In a 2010 post in MailOnline, author Tony Rennell suggested Consuelo was one of the real American "Downton heiresses" who married into and saved the British…
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Video of the Week: “The Vanderbilts - An American Dynasty”
This week's video of the week is a 48-minute Biography special on our beloved Vanderbilt Family.
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The Vanderbilt Family at the Start-Finish Line of the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race
The Vanderbilt Cup Races attracted the Vanderbilt family and their friends to the grandstands. It was never more evident than at the Start-Finish Line on Jericho Turnpike in Mineola for the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race.
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Willie K’s Sister Consuelo Vanderbilt: The Duchess of Marlborough
William K. Vanderbilt Jr.'s sister Consuelo, the Duchess of Marlborough (center wearing a white blouse) was among the 5,000 spectators gathered at the Mineola grandstand for the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race. A 2010 profile on kimmystyle.blogspot.com is reposted here, supplemented by images from my collection.
The partially completed train crossing is obviously Mineola or Albertson. Staring at the picture it could easily be…