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Title: Evalyn Walsh McLean Papers Inclusive Dates: 1874-1948 ID No.: MSS32318 Creator: McLean, Evalyn Walsh, 1886-1947 Extent: 45,000 items Extent: 113 containers plus 3 oversize Extent: 46.4 linear feet Language: Collection material in English Location: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
On the 26th of April, 1947, Evalyn Walsh McLean, the mining heiress, died at her Georgetown mansion that overlooked Washington, D.C. She was 60 years old. Naturally one of the first things her ...
Evalyn Walsh McLean is the co-author of a memoir, Father Struck It Rich (1936), co-written with Boyden Sparkes. She was raised in the first address in Dupont Circle, one of the largest mansions in DC, built by her father in 1903. Walsh was a poor Irish immigrant who made a fortune operating one of the richest gold mines in the world, located in Colorado.
15 de abr. de 2021 · Evalyn Walsh McLean, American heiress, wearing the Hope Diamond, circa 1920. After buying the diamond in 1912, McLean wore it frequently to high-society gatherings. GRANGER/ALBUM.
Correspondence, memoranda, business and legal records, notes, printed matter, scrapbooks, broadsides, photographs, and other papers pertaining primarily to McLean's leading role in the social life of Washington, D.C. Business records relate chiefly to the Colorado mining interests of her father, Thomas F. Walsh, and the Walsh family as well as to the publishing interests of her husband, Edward ...
The papers of Evalyn Walsh McLean, socialite, of Washington, D.C., daughter of Thomas F. Walsh, married Edward Beale McLean in 1907, and later divorced, were given to the Library of Congress by Thurman Arnold, executor of the McLean estate, in 1949. Processing History The papers of Evalyn Walsh McLean were processed in 1964.
biog file - mclean, evalyn (walsh), 1886-1947 [item] [p&p] Repository Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
