Lee, Elizabeth

By 1906, when Charles Lang Freer officially donated his collection to the Smithsonian, the fifty-two-year-old retired railroad industrialist had acquired thousands of objects from many parts of the globe. Although he began as a...

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Lee, Elizabeth

In 1901, the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens proclaimed in a letter to Will Low, “Health-is the thing!” Though recently diagnosed with intestinal cancer, Saint-Gaudens was revitalized by recreational sports, having realized...

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