EDITH DRESSER VANDERBILT PARIS PHOTO
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PLEASE NOTE: A tentative insurance amount is included in the handling fee. Original 9 3/4" x 5 1/4" photo of Edith Dresser Vanderbilt taken in Paris in very good condition. Edith was a descendent of Peter Stuyvesant; she married George Washington Vanderbilt II in Paris in 1898 and lived with him in the Biltmore estate in Asheville NC. He died in 1914 and she remarried in 1925 to Peter G Gerry, a US Senator from Rhode Island. This item related to Edith (Vanderbilt) Shepard Fabbri, along with others, was retrieved in 1963 from a refuse bin outside the Plaza Auction Gallery on East 79th St NYC and stored by the unknown rescuer until now. Edith (Vanderbilt) Shepard Fabbri, the great granddaughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, was born to Margaret Louise Vanderbilt (the daughter of William Henry Vanderbilt) and Elliott F Shepard in 1872. In 1896 she married Ernesto G Fabbri who she had met in Italy while traveling through Europe with her mother. She had 2 children: Teresa Fabbri who was born in 1897 and Ernesto G Jr who was born in 1900 and died in 1909 from appendicitis. Edith and Ernesto Fabbri were divorced in 1923. She never remarried and died in 1954. Ernesto G Fabbri was the son Of Ernesto G Fabbri, senior partner of Drexel Morgan & Co and an American mother. He had 2 brothers: Egisto & Alessandro; and 5 sisters. US buyers:
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