Title: Mrs. William Backhouse Astor, Jr. Description: Mrs. William Backhouse Astor, Jr. (Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor; 1830-1908), the grande dame of New York Society and the reigning queen of society at fashionable Newport, Rhode Island; she is shown being escorted by socialite Harry Lehr (Harold Symes Lehr; 1869-1929) to a gala automobile rally in 1899 in Newport; Caroline Astor suffered fits of dementia in later years and is buried in New York's Trinity Church Cemetery where her 39-foot cenotaph towers over all other tombstones, dominating the city's upper crust in death as she did in life. Category: Society Topic: Rich and Famous Keywords: affluent, automobiles, autos, cars, fashionable society, gentry, high social class, high society, magnates, millionaires, New York's 400, rich, socialites, tycoons, vehicles, wealthy Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 1710 x 1230 (2.10 MPixels) (1.39) Print Size: 14.5 x 10.4 cm; 5.7 x 4.1 inches File Size: 6.03 MB (6,319,966 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000029017 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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