Henry Symes Lehr was an American socialite during the Gilded Age who was dubbed "America's Court Jester".
Lehr in 1908
Lehr in drag for an amateur theatrical performance
Harper Pennington's portrait of Robert Gould Shaw II as "Little Billee" from the novel Trilby, a painting said to have been owned by Lehr and hung in his bedroom
Theresa Alice "Tessie" Fair was an American socialite. She went from being the daughter of a hard-scrabble California miner to become heiress to a fortune in Comstock Lode gold and silver, the wife of
Rosecliff's dining room in the Louis XVI style, 1905.
Rosecliff's staircase, 1905.