William A. Carr diary, Volume 10, 1911

Highlights include:

Divorces of Andrew W. Mellon and Lula Frick Clarke; Childs Frick’s Abyssinian expedition; trials of A.H. Eames, Laura F. Schenk, Frank N. Hoffstot; changes in leadership at United States Steel; anti-trust suit against Standard Oil; robbery at the William Thaw residence; deaths of C.S. Overholt, Howard Childs, Co. L.T. Brown, Joseph Woodwell, E.E. Beddoe, Richard M. Gulick, John W. Gates, Francis L. Robbins; weddings of Vivien Gould and Lord Decies, Mary McNeal and Lawrence Dilworth, Julia Parish Dodge and James C. Rea; Frick’s purchase of Velasquez’s Philip IV and Gainsborough’s Lady Duncombe; establishment of Carnegie Corporation of New York, and numerous clippings mentioning Carnegie; coronation of England’s King George and Queen Mary; temperance issues; anti-trust hearings re: United States Steel; rumors of Frick buying a mansion in Pasadena; political cartoon of Frick, Carnegie, etc. as Pittsburgh boomers; visit of John Brashear to Prides Crossing and Skibo Castle; theft of the Mona Lisa; stampede in Canonsburg, Pa., theater; Sewickley-Coraopolis bridge; President Taft’s visit to Pittsburgh.