Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
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Cornelius "Sonny" Vanderbilt Whitney was an American businessman, film producer, government official, writer and philanthropist. He was also a polo player who owned a stable of Thoroughbred racehorses
C. V. Whitney
Whitney's fourth wife, Marylou Whitney, with children, 1959
C.V. and Marylou Whitney with Governor and Mrs. John Y. Brown Jr.
Portrait of Henri II de Lorraine by Anthony van Dyck, 1634, which Whitney donated to the National Gallery of Art
Harry Payne Whitney
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Harry Payne Whitney was an American businessman, thoroughbred horse breeder, and member of the prominent Whitney family.
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
…a polo player who owned a stable of Thoroughbred racehorses. Born in Old Westbury, New York, he was the only son of the wealthy and socially prominent Harry Payne Whitney (1872–1932) and his wife, Gertrude Vanderbilt (1875–1942). He had a younger sister, Barbara Vanderbilt Whitney (1903–1982), and an elder sister, Flora…
Whitney in February 1924
J. Parks, Harry Payne Whitney, and F.S. von Stade, circa 1914
Whitney and his horse Regret
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, in Vogue magazine, by Adolf de Meyer, January 15, 1917