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William A. Carr diary, Volume 11, 1912

 File — Box: 53

Scope and Contents note

Highlights include:

Henry Clay Frick's trip to Egypt; Childs Frick's trip to Africa; fire in the Equitable Building, New York; P.C. Knox, Andrew Carnegie; Theodore Roosevelt; John Brashear; Harry K. Thaw; Mrs. John Jacob Astor; Frick organist Archer Gibson; J.P. Morgan; steel trust hearings in Washington, D.C.; Titanic disaster; Helen Clay Frick's Iron Rail Vacation Home; Lenox Library, New York; Hump removal in Pittsburgh; purchase of Rembrandt's Portrait of a Dutch Merchant; summer fĂȘte at Eagle Rock; rumored purchase of Chamberlain's portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Henry Clay Frick.

Dates

  • Creation: 1912

Repository Details

Part of the Frick Collection Archives Repository

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