Nexus:Evelyn Nesbit

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Nexus: Evelyn Nesbit
"Woman: the Eternal Question, 1901"
  • Articles in this Category are related to The Girl in the Velvet Swing, Evelyn Nesbit.
  • She was a model for Charles Dana Gibson's "Woman: the Eternal Question, 1901"
  • She personified the Gibson Girl
  • she was one of the most photographed people of her time
  • At age of 16, she was drugged and raped by Stanford White
  • She married a deranged and jealous Harry Kendall Thaw
  • On June 25, 1906, Stanford White was attending a musical show at Madison Square Garden
  • Thaw approached White and shot him - White was hit in the face and died instantly
  • Only one week after the murder, a nickelodeon film, "Rooftop Murder", was released, rushed into production by Thomas Edison.
  • The shooting was the basis for the film "Ragtime" with James Cagney and Elizabeth McGovern
  • The ensuing trial became known as the "The Trial of the Century" (see Stanford White for more information)
  • Thaw, being a multi-millionaire, was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
  • In 1916, Thaw was charged with the kidnapping, beating, and sexual assault of nineteen-year-old Frederick Gump
  • Thaw died of a heart attack in Miami, Florida, on February 22, 1947

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