Mrs. Gertrude Sheldon Sands, wife of Samuel Stevens Sands III, a son of Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt Sr., in 1913. Lovely Gertie was widowed that summer when her husband was killed in an automobile accident in West Hampton NY; three years later she married financier Richard Whitney. (Library of Congress)
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What an elegant and lovely portrait!
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