Research Catalog

Title

Silhouette in diamonds : the life of Mrs. Potter Palmer / by Ishbel Ross.

Author

Ross, Ishbel, 1897-1975.

Publication

• New York : Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1960.
• ©1960

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Details

Description

xi, 276 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

Ross goes beyond the legends of Bertha's jewels, clothes, and lavish entertaining to bring to light astonishing facts about the woman herself. Married to Potter Palmer, the millionaire real estate operator who built the Palmer House and helped to develop Chicago in its early days, her drive, ambition and skill sped the restoration of the shattered city after the Chicago fire of 1871.

Alternative Title

LIfe of Mrs. Potter Palmer

Subject

• Palmer, Bertha Honoré, 1849-1918
• Palmer, Bertha Honoré, 1849-1918 > Art patronage
• Palmer family
• Palmer, Potter
• Palmer, Bertha Honoré
• Since 1875
• Socialites > United States > Biography
• Upper class women > Illinois > Chicago > Biography
• Upper class > Illinois > Chicago > Social life and customs
• Art patronage
• Socialites
• Upper class > Social life and customs
• Upper class women
• Chicago (Ill.) > History > 1875-
• Chicago (Ill.) > Biography
• Illinois > Chicago
• United States

Genre/Form

• collective biographies.
• Biographies.
• History.
• Palmo, Botha H.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-267) and index.

Contents

A city in flames -- Merchant prince -- The innkeeper's wife -- Mrs. Palmer invades Europe -- World's Columbian Exposition -- The nation's hostess -- Conquest of Newport -- Art collector -- The Paris Exposition -- Edwardian England -- Chaliapin sings for Mrs. Palmer -- Back to nature.

ISBN

• 0405069340
• 9780405069345

LCCN

60013443

OCLC

• ocm00709088
• 709088
• SCSB-265720

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library