Richard Carver Wood photographs of the dedication of To the Morrow

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Richard Carver Wood photographs of the dedication of To the Morrow

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Four b&w mounted photographs taken by Richard Carver Wood of the dedication of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's sculpture, "To the Morrow," created for the 1939-40 New York World's Fair. Pictured in the photographs with the sculpture are Whitney, Juliana Force, New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, and Grover Whalen, the official World's Fair greeter, among others.

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Wood, Richard Carver

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Photographer and architect Richard Carver Wood was educated at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also worked on several documentaries, including Nancy Hamilton’s documentary on Helen Keller, The Unconquered (1954). From the guide to the Photographs of Harvard faculty and buildings, 1936, (Harvard University Archives) Richard Carver Wood was a photographer and architect in New York, N.Y. and Cambridge, Mass. From the de...

Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt, 1875-1942

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Sculptor, art patron, philanthropist. Founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Whitney was born in 1875 to Cornelius Vanderbilt, II. In 1896, married Harry Payne Whitney, son of William C. Whitney, secretary of the Navy, 1885-1889. She studied sculpture under Henry Anderson, James Fraser and Andrew O'Connor. In 1907, she opened a studio in Greenwich Village's MacDougal Alley. She was active in WW I charities, and sponsored the opening of the American Ambulance Fiel...