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Mrs. Edgar Bloom Stern (Edith Rosenwald)

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Mrs. Edgar B. Stern

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Edith Rosenwald Stern (1895-1980) was the third child of Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932), who became president of Sears, Roebuck and Co. in 1908 and piloted the company to unparalleled merchandising power. In 1921 she married Edgar Bloom Stern (1886-1959), a businessman and philanthropist from a prominent New Orleans family. They raised their family in New Orleans at Longue Vue House and Gardens, a Greek Revival--style mansion with extensive gardens. Edith Stern founded the Metairie Park Country Day School, was a trustee of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, which funded libraries in southern communities open to all races during the early 1930s, and served as president of the board of Dillard University.
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Watercolor On Ivory
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Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the American Society of Miniature Painters
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Smithsonian Institution

Keywords

  1. Bust
  2. Hasselriis, Malthe M
  3. Portrait Female
  4. Portraits
  5. Stern, Edgar B., Mrs
  6. Women

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