Katharine Tomkins Villard photograph albums and scrapbooks, circa 1899-1933 circa 1899-1933

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Katharine Tomkins Villard photograph albums and scrapbooks, circa 1899-1933 circa 1899-1933

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/18133

Katharine Tomkins Villard (1904-2000) was a member of the socially prominent Tomkins and Villard families of New York City. The collection consists chiefly of family photograph albums, documenting her life from childhood through the early years of her marriage to Vincent S. Villard in 1928. Also included in the collection are a childhood scrapbook, and a scrapbook of solicitations from bridal businesses sent to her sister-in-law Mariquita after her engagement was announced in the newspapers in 1928.

2.25 linear feet; 9 boxes

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6311926

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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Villard, Vincent Serrano

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Willard family

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Tompkins family

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New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Collection

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Villard, Mariquita

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Villard, Katharine Tomkins

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Katharine Tomkins Villard (1904-2000) was the daughter of Calvin Tomkins and Kittie Neilley Tomkins. Born into a family of wealth and privilege, she attended the Spence School of Manhattan and the Ethel Walker School of Connecticut. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1926 and became engaged to Vincent S. Villard in 1928. Her husband, was the great grandson of William Lloyd Garrison, the grandson of Henry Villard, and the nephew of actor Vincent Serrano. From the gui...