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Rice, Eleanore Elkins print view role Collector dates 1862-1937 city New York City state NY other cities Philadelphia, PA; Poughkeepsie, NY; Newport, RI; Paris, France; Palm Beach, FL; sex F historical notes Eleanore Elkins Widener Rice was an art collector, socialite and philanthropist. Her art collection included, among other items, 18th century French furniture, Sèvres porcelain, Louis XVI furniture, terracotta figures by Clodion and Beauvais, eighteenth-century English silver, and tapestries by François Boucher and others. Rice left the Louis XVI drawing room and contents in her Fifth Avenue home (901 Fifth Avenue) to the Pennsylvania Museum of Art At Philadelphia. A survivor of the RMS Titanic, Eleanor Rice was married twice; her first husband George Dunton Widener (1861 - 1912) and son Harry Elkins Widener (1885 -1912) were victims of the RMS Titanic; her second husband was the surgeon and Amazon explorer Alexander Hamilton Rice (1875 - 1956). She was the daughter of William Lukens Elkins (1832 – 1903). In memory of her son, Rice gave Harvard University $2,000,000 for the Widener Memorial; she built the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Science building at the Hill School, Pottstown (1931), and rebuilt St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Elkins Park. decades of activity 1900-1910 1910-1920 1920-1930 1930-1940 1940-1950 updated 03/22/2024 12:09:32 bibliographic search Search Frick Art Reference Library Catalog Search Photoarchive Search Worldcat Search Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) Search Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) Archives/Repository Collection Title Collection Details Philadelphia Museum of Art Archives Fiske Kimball Records, 1908-1955, n.d. (bulk 1925-1954) see details... The Historical Society of Pennsylvania 1300 Locust Street Horace Trumbauer collection, 1898-1947. see details... Temple University Paley Library, Special Collections Honorary diploma, 1935. see details... Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Gottscho-Schleisner Collection (Library of Congress), 1896-1970, bulk 1935-1955 see details... Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Johnston photograph collection (Library of Congress), ca. 1864-ca. 1947, bulk 1897-1927. see details... Houghton Library Harvard Yard, Harvard University Letters to Eleanor Elkins Widener and A. Hamilton Rice : manuscript, 1915-1940. see details... Houghton Library Harvard Yard, Harvard University Letters to Flora Livingston: 1914-1937. manuscript, 1914-1937 see details... Houghton Library Harvard Yard, Harvard University Letters to Eleanor Elkins Widener from collectors and libraries : manuscript, 1914-1915. see details... see also: Elkins, William L. (William Lukens), 1832-1903 Widener, P. A. B. (Peter Arrell Brown), 1834-1915 «  back