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What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.
Frank Crowninshield
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Frank Crowninshield
Age: 74 †
Born: 1872
Born: January 1
Died: 1947
Died: January 1
Art Collector
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Francis Welch Crowninshield
F. W. Crowninshield
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