Social History
Social History• December 19, 2011

Part VIII: Social Rites during World War II, 1942-1945

For this next installment of Ellen Glendinning Frazer’s photographic chronicle, I selected images from more than ten volumes containing several thousand photographs from 1942 to 1945 and arranged them within two separate […]...

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Philadelphia in Palm Beach, Part I

Palm Beach• September 3, 2011.
We are taking today off to continue to optimize the back end of the new site. In the meantime, please enjoy Part 1 of Augustus Mayhew’s series on Philadelphian Ellen Glendinning (first published on these pages in 2011), who kept an extensive diary where she recorded and photographed the life around her family and friends; a chronological scrapboo... READ MORE
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Resort Life between the Wars: Part VII, 1940

Social History• August 19, 2011.
Resort Life between the Wars: Part VII, 1940 Chestnut Hill – Long Island – Lake Bluff – Saratoga By the spring of 1940 the nation was on edge as the […]... READ MORE
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Part VI: Palm Beach – Northeast Harbor – Palm Beach

Social History• August 8, 2011.
Resort Life between the Wars: Part VI, 1939-1940 Palm Beach – Maine – Chestnut Hill – Palm Beach Click. Snap. Flash. Philadelphian Ellen Glendinning Frazer was never without her camera. Her family […]... READ MORE
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Philadelphia in Palm Beach: Part V, 1938-1939

Social History• August 2, 2011.
Watch Hill – Middleburg – Palm Beach During the carefree summer of 1938 Watch Hill Beach Club and the Misquamicut Golf Club members sharpened their backhands and refined their putts, […]... READ MORE
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Philadelphia in Palm Beach: Part IV, 1938

Social History• July 29, 2011.
Philadelphia-Palm Beach-Watch Hill cosmopolitan Ellen Glendinning Frazer focused her camera on the private lives of society’s most extraordinary personalities, making for an entertaining biographical chronicle of the faces and places […]... READ MORE
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Philadelphia in Palm Beach: Part III, 1935-1938, cont.

Social History• July 21, 2011.
January 1936 Arizona Biltmore Hotel, Scottsdale January 1936 Montecito February 1936 Arizona Inn, Tucson February 1936 Castle Hot Springs, Arizona Hacienda De La Osa Sasabe, Arizona November 1936 Hindenburg PALM […]... READ MORE
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Philadelphia in Palm Beach: Part III, 1935-1938

Social History• July 20, 2011.
Tea in Chestnut Hill with Mrs. Albert (Rebecca) Pancoast, mother-in-law of Joseph Widener, a weekend hunt at Gertrude “Gertie” Sanford Legendre’s Medway Plantation, cocktails and dinner with Cornelius Vanderbilt “Sonny” […]... READ MORE
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Philadelphia in Palm Beach: Part II, 1931-1935, cont.

Social History• July 12, 2011.
Chicago, June 1933 In Chicago for a Garden Club meet and a party at Marion McKinlock’s, Ellen Frazer visited the International Exposition. Chestnut Hill, 1933-1935 Amidst the Wood, Field and […]... READ MORE
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Philadelphia in Palm Beach: Part II, 1931-1935

Social History• June 10, 2011.
Philadelphia in Palm Beach: Part II, 1931-1935 In March New York Social Diary featured the first part of a series Philadelphia in Palm Beach: 1920-1931 adapted from Ellen Glendinning Frazer Ordway’s voluminous biographical scrapbook […]... READ MORE
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The April 1987 PEN dinner

Social History• April 5, 2011.
Twenty-four years ago this month, at the Metropolitan Club, there was a PEN dinner to beat all previous PEN dinners. It was chaired by Gayfryd Steinberg who was then one of the […]... READ MORE
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PICASSO & PIE DOWN EAST: The Mid-Century in Maine

Social History• March 4, 2011.
I live in a typical little coastal village in eastern Maine — although ‘typical’ depends on one’s perspective. We live amidst achingly beautiful scenery, made only more beautiful by the […]... READ MORE
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The Trouble With Footmen: Servant Problems in Old Bar Harbor

Social History• February 9, 2011.
In 1941, Chicago heiress and philanthropist Louise de Koven Bowen, the major patron of Jane Addams’s Hull House settlement, made a difficult decision: She must sell her beloved summer home, Baymeath, at Hull’s Cove near […]... READ MORE

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