Borowitz True Crime Digital Collection

Postcards: Thaw, Evelyn Nesbit

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Postcards: Thaw, Evelyn Nesbit

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Title Postcards: Thaw, Evelyn Nesbit
Publisher Hall, NY
Time Period 20th century
Description This is a set of nine postcards in which Thaw depicts a character type/role or a certain mood or activity including: "The Bride," "The Coquette," "The Dawn of Hope," "A Day Dream," "In a Reverie," "Little Red Riding Hood," "Pensiveness," "The Village Belle." Two versions of "The Village Belle" are present. The postcards are undated.

Evelyn Nesbit's jealous husband, Harry K. Thaw, murdered prominent New York City architect, Stanford White, in the rooftop restaurant theater of Madison Square Garden in 1906. White had been a former lover of Evelyn Nesbit.
General Subject Area Crime
Extent 9 postcards
Institution Kent State University
Repository Special Collections and Archives
Finding aid title Finding Aid for the Crime-Related Postcards collection
Access Rights This digital object is owned by Kent State University and may be protected by U.S. Copyright law (Title 17, USC). Please include proper citation and credit for use of this item. Use in publications or productions is prohibited without written permission from Kent State University. Please contact the Department of Special Collections and Archives for more information.
Duplication Policy http://www.library.kent.edu/special-collections-and-archives/duplication-policy
DPLA Rights Statement http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Format of Original postcard
Subject Murder, General
Provenance Crime-Related Postcards collection
Genre/Format postcards
Geographical Location United States. New York

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