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Fig. 2 Ashridge in Briarcliff Manor, Wikipedia

Following her death, she allocated $10 million to establish the Mrs. Sources:
Giles Whiting Foundation, which funds numerous fellowships, awards, https://www.briarcliffhistory.org/the-briarcliff-notebook/
and prizes to support graduate students, poets, novelists, authors, k0ph21o6yyipan7i9d6sm8653frkra
and scholars in the humanities. In her will, she designated that her two https://www.nytimes.com/1972/05/02/archives/the-bids-told-story-
favorite museums could select furniture and artworks as donations of-a-lifetime-knack-for-buyingantiques.html
to their collections; first pick went to the Museum of the City of New https://www.jbhe.com/2017/03/university-of-mississippi-
York, which selected 75 pieces, including paintings by Childe Hassam anthropologist-among-the-eight-whitingpublic-engagement-fellows/
(1859-1935) and George Innes (1825-1894); second pick went to The https://www.whiting.org/foundation/history
Metropolitan Museum of Art, which chose 50 important pieces of https://www.jbhe.com/2017/03/university-of-mississippi-
furniture and 146 decorative works of art. Among the works selected anthropologist-among-the-eight-whitingpublic-engagement-fellows/
by the Metropolitan Museum were over 50 Chinese works of art, https://www.nytimes.com/1971/03/19/archives/estate-of-mrs-flora-
principally comprised of Qing dynasty porcelains. whiting-estimated-at-25million.html

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