Vanderbilt Whitney Archive Gertrude Flora Spain Photos WWI Letters Horse Jumping More. Mixed ephemera lot largely circa 1910s inc WWI era with bullfight photos, a Flora Payne Whitney bw photo album of a beach vacation incl Gertrude as well as Flora on a boat with a shark and multiple Flora beach images, Mrs GM Miller, Flora misc and an Aiken 1980s Day School mentioning Bob newsletter together with FWM letterhead monogram preparatory stencils, a half dozen bw photos of a horse jumping contest and a large archive of aprox 1916 to 1927 Flora letters incl letterheads, addresses, origins and references such as 1801 F Street, Jungle Road Palm Beach, Flora at Foxcroft, SS OlympicSS Laurentic telegram Flora and Cully humor, Ft Worth, Jackson Place Washington, foreign to to 871 5th Ave, British Embassy letterwith a name not spelled out and a piece of torn out of both letter and envelope, Guy Portman at the Brittish Embassy writing to Mrs Whitney noting her friend Al JHohnsonwas performing and suggesting getting seats, Penna Station NY telegram, London Union Club Trafalgar Square, Newport, Old Westburry, Suite of Ralph Purlitzer letters to Mrs Rodrick Tower at Newport, 2 poodle dog portrait, pencil drawings, Hary to Flora from the Canadian YMCA on Active Service with the British Expeditionary Force letterhead about flying over the alps from Italy to France by aeroplane Aug 18, 1918 the Harry being Lt JG HP Davison USA, Aiken, Galerie Berheim Paris Mrs Miller 240 for lithograph with 49 Rue Boileau address, similar at Galarie Carlier, CG Coye Maroquiner receipt, Miss Flora from Cambridge and from Norfolk Naval Base, Cousin Adele Happy Christmas, French telegram from Flora, Gertrude on GVW ‘72 Blvd Flandrin Flora call back your trunks…hated idea of you crossing alone… Mama, Hotel Scribe in Nice France, Flora at Elmiraso in California, Leone Gausset card Paris, Baltimore, Beryl Eddy stationary, planning the Mayfield Parrish mural in the Studio with the artist in Cornish while he worked on a Boston commission,a Prince Albert Victor of Wales CDV photo, Buffalo Bill monument post cards and a couple of unidentified Victorian photo portraits.Provenance and Shipping: The first 100 lots in this sale are from the Studio of noted sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, founder of the Whitney Museum and great granddaughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. At one time she was regarded as the wealthiest woman in America. The 8 largest items which are identified in the first sentence of their listings are in NY NJ CT Tri-State storage 1 hour from Manhattan with pick ups administered by our staff by appt. and the remaining 92 lots were removed from her landmark Old Westbury, Long Island, NY estate by our staff during real estate staging and transported to our Florida warehouses where they are available to be shipped via UPS or Tampa Bay pick up. Decorated with murals by prominent Gilded Age to Art Deco artist colleagues and the site of legendary soirees attended by a Whos Who of actors, painters and philanthropists, the property has been listed for sale, emptied of contents and staged for its real estate sale listing. Last year our firm was commissioned by the Vanderbilt Whitney family owners to offer 22 lots of GVW sculpture and dozens of lots of paintings, important silver, jewelry, fine art photography, decorative arts and Chinese antiques descended in multiple branches and generations of the Vanderbilt Whitney family over two record setting auctions. We are now excited to present a third sale including Vanderbilt Whitney Library Books, Archive Photography and Documents plus Important Studio Art, Historic Furnishings and Garden Sculpture. Previews for items in Florida are 1 person at a time for specific advance requested lots by appt. at our main St. Petersburg, FL warehouse from Saturday January 13th through Friday January 19th as items are not staged for exhibition and are securely housed outside of preview times at multiple locations. There is no in person preview available for the 8 Tri-State storage lots, their preview is photo only. The sale is online only with no in person auction audience or warehouse activity the day of sale or the Sunday after the sale. Winning bidders are invoiced Sunday and Monday and items are not available for pick up or shipping until payments are processed electronically as there is no payment processing at our warehouse. Thank you for your interest and participation in another exciting Richard Stedman Estate Services LLC online event.

Except for the torn Embassy letter most correspondence browned but presentable, many photos rather faded and others soiled or with corner impacts, vacation album cover very worn with losses, monogram stencils tattered.