Tag: Caroline Otéro

  • Meet the Lady Known as “La Belle”

    Meet the Lady Known as “La Belle”

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    The early 20th century was an era when young women who were willing to flaunt their private “attributes” could win the affection of many men the likes of whom could be stable-boys to kings. Caroline Otéro was one such lady. Men loved her; women were jealous. Meet the women known as “La Belle.”

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  • Bookmark Postcards

    Bookmark Postcards

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    [elementor-template id=”3378″] Bookmark Postcards Recently a collection of eight Reutlinger (the well-known publisher in Paris) postcards came to my attention.  I have seen bookmark size cards often, but these interested me because seven of the eight appear to be addressed by the same hand to Mademoiselles at addresses in the Cher Department, a French “region,”…

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For nearly a century, New Yorkers had river steamer service second to none other. When the Washington Irving launched in 1913 it was a splendid steamer, but sadly it sailed without its artist. Read the whole story.

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