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Alva Erskine Belmont (née Smith; January 17, 1853 – January 26, 1933), known as Alva Vanderbilt from 1875 to 1896, was an American multi-millionaire socialite and women's suffrage activist. She was noted for her energy, intelligence, strong opinions, and willingness to challenge convention.
Alva Belmont was a prominent socialite of New York City and Newport, Rhode Island, who, in her later years, became an outspoken suffragist. Alva Smith grew up in her birthplace of Mobile, Alabama, and, after the American Civil War, in France. She married William K. Vanderbilt, grandson of
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7 de jul. de 2023 · Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont (1853-1933) was a champion of woman suffrage and equal rights for women. Belmont provided financial support and leadership for the campaign to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Born into southern aristocracy in 1853, Alva Smith Belmont was educated in France, where the family had moved after the Civil War devastated the American South. They later returned to New York , where Belmont made her society debut and, in April 1875, married William K. Vanderbilt, grandson of Cornelius.
Alva Erskine Smith Vanderbilt Belmont (1853-January 26, 1933) By Edith P. Mayo, Curator Emerita of the Smithsonian Museum of American History. Alva Belmont, often referred to as Mrs. O.H. P. Belmont (1853-1933), was the most important financier of the militant wing of the suffrage movement in the United States.
8 de fev. de 2015 · Faced with the architectural ambition and generous resources of the Gilded Age, social arbiter Alva Smith Vanderbilt (1853–1933) and architect Richard Morris Hunt (1827–1895) designed a series of period homes with trend-setting interiors that profoundly marked the evolution of domestic design in late nineteenth-century America.
This collection contains 9 items in 9 file folders that reveal the life of Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont, snippets regarding the Smith family, and the Vanderbilt family during the later part of the 19th century, and the first part of the 20th century.
