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358:'s work, which he had loaned her for the fair. The frankness of his nudes had caused a stir at the fair and after resisting for a number of months, works by Rodin entered the collection as well and these were among the first acquired by American collectors. Bertha Palmer enjoyed her role as a cultural leader and tastemaker. In 1905, Hallowell finally convinced Mrs. Palmer to sit for Rodin.
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She proved herself to be an astute businesswoman: within sixteen years after her husband's death, she managed to double the value of the estate he had left her. After her death, a large parcel of her land was donated (donated according to
Sarasota County, sold according to the state) by her sons to
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She became a progressive rancher, land developer, and farm developer who introduced many innovations to encourage the
Florida ranching, citrus, dairy, and farming industries. Palmer was one of the first famous people to winter in Florida, beginning a now-common practice. She encouraged wealthy
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so fabulous were her jewels that a newspaper declared that when she appeared on the S.S. Kaiser
Wilhelm der Grosse with a tiara of diamonds as large as lima beans, a corsage panned with diamonds, a sunburst as big as a baseball, a stomacher of diamonds and all the pearls around her neck, Alois
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and designer to supervise the interior decoration. However, when Hayden wouldn't take Palmer's advice to accept rich women's donations of architectural odds and ends to decorate the exterior, fearing a horrible visual impact as a result, Palmer fired Hayden and hired the much more malleable
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Impressionist works. Because Hallowell was curating a loan exhibition of the latest French art for the exposition, the Palmers accelerated their collecting because the curator wanted the latest and greatest in French art for the fair. Palmer's collection of
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to do the two murals and after their initial rejection of the contracts, the women only had a number of months to complete the murals and have them shipped to
Chicago. Led by Palmer, who approached Congress on the matter, the board also requested that the mint produce a new
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Chicago, he learned to please his customers, many of whom were women. He made customer service a priority and carried everything from dry goods to the latest French fashions for ladies. Palmer sold his vast store to a consortium, and it would eventually become
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Chicago, starting with $ 100,000 and rising over $ 1 million. Potter Palmer dictated in his will that a sum of money should go to whoever next married Bertha. When asked why he would be so generous to his own replacement, he replied, "Because he'll need it."
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Palmers re-established their fortune. Despite her age, she quickly rose to the top of
Chicago society. "She was beautiful, dashing, quick, and smart; and more than that, she was sure of herself," wrote historian
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Her grandson Potter D'Orsay Palmer (1908–39) became a notorious playboy who married four times and died after a brawl in
Sarasota. His and Bertha's legacy are recounted in Frank A Cassell's book
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until the city made them part of the school system, and campaigned for inexpensive milk for impoverished children and better care for children of imprisoned mothers.
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