William Douglas Sloane
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William Douglas Sloane was an American businessman, sportsman, philanthropist, and member of New York society during the Gilded Age.
Advertisement for W. & J. Sloane Furniture from Sept. 1902 editions of Scribner's Magazine.
Sloane Physics Laboratory, the science building funded by Sloane at Yale University.
Equestrian estate in Lee, Massachusetts, acquired from Wellington Smith, father of Elizur Yale, nephew of Senator Smith.
Frederick William Vanderbilt
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Frederick William Vanderbilt was a member of the American Vanderbilt family. He was a director of the New York Central Railroad for 61 years, and also a director of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad and of the Chicago and North Western Railroad.
F. W. Vanderbilt, ca. 1913, painted by Raymond Neilson, St. Anthony Hall collection.