Photographs of time spent at Medway Plantation, Sea Island (Ga. ), Cypress Gardens (S. C. ), the Hutton family's Laurel Spring Plantation (S. C. ). Also includes Sidney's departure to Washington D. C. for World War II, a visit from British commander Sir John Dill, and visits from Charlie and Katherine Biddle, Armant Legendre, Morris Legendre, designer Marion Hall, and Charleston lawyer Ben Scott Whaley. Also includes family photographs taken by Toni Frissell and a Toni Frissell photo shoot for Harper's Bazaar magazine staged at Medway (models include Ruth Ackerman, Sandra Payson, Mary Fenwick, Bokara, and Landine.
Includes photos of Medway "before buying," family members spending time with newlywed Gertrude and Sidney at Medway including Katherine and Charlie Biddle, Jane Pansa, John and Laddie Sanford, Morris Legendre and wife Nancy Newbold, and Landine Legendre. Also includes photos of a quail shoot at Boone Hall Plantation, Charleston (S.C.).
This album is comprised of photographs, letters, newspaper clippings, and other documents from the Dillon Ripley Nepal Expedition, in which Getrude Legendre and others participated. The expedition was sponsored by the National Geographic Society, The Smithsonian Institute, and Yale University, and included travel through Nepalese villages, temples, and mountains, including Mount Everest.
This album is comprised of photographs from Italian Count Galeazzo Ciano's visit to Budapest in January 1942. A number of Fascists and other members of the Axis powers during World War II are pictured, including Dr. Laszlo Bardossy, prime minister of Hungary, and Mihai Antonescu, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Romania.
This album consists of photographs, travel permits, newspaper clippings, and other documents related to the Legendre Iran Expedition for the American Museum of Natural History. Photos show Gertrude and Sidney Legendre camping and hunting with George Goodwin from the Museum.
This album is comprised of photographs from the Sanford-Legendre Abyssinia Expedition, including photographs of Gertrude Sanford, Sidney and Morris Legendre, and T. Donald Carter of the American Museum of Natural History hunting and camping.
This album consists of photographs, newspaper clippings, and other documents related to the Legendre South West Africa Expedition for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
This album is comprised of photographs from the Legendre Indochina Expedition, including photos of Gertrude and Sidney Legendre and T. Donald Carter of the American Museum of Natural History. Photos show expedition members hunting and traveling in Vietnam and the ruins at Angkor.
This album is comprised of photographs from the Legendre Indochina Expedition, including photos of Gertrude and Sidney Legendre and T. Donald Carter of the American Museum of Natural History. Photos show expedition members hunting and camping in Laos and Vietnam.
This album is comprised of photographs, letters, newspaper clippings, and other documents from an expedition to French Equatorial Africa, in which Getrude Legendre participated. The expedition was sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History and the National Geographic Society, and collected plant and animal specimens, photographs of wildlife and people, and recordings of native dialects and music.
This album is comprised of photographs, maps, letters, and and other documents from the Sanford-Legendre Abyssinia Expedition, including photographs of Gertrude Sanford, Sidney and Morris Legendre, and T. Donald Carter of the American Museum of Natural History.
This album consists of photographs of Ethel, Stephen, Sarah Jane, and Gertrude Sanford. Photos show places where they traveled, including Maryland, New York, Florida, South Carolina, Canada, Spain, England, and Morocco.
This album is comprised of photographs from the Legendre Indochina Expedition, including photos of Gertrude and Sidney Legendre and T. Donald Carter of the American Museum of Natural History. Photos show expedition members traveling throughout Indochina.
This album is comprised of photographs from the Legendre Indochina Expedition, including photos of Gertrude and Sidney Legendre and T. Donald Carter of the American Museum of Natural History. Photos show expedition members traveling in Vietnam and Laos.
This album is comprised of photographs from Gertrude and Sidney Legendre's 1941 trip to Guatemala. Photos show the Legendres with friend Toni Frisell and others visiting villages, markets, and churches in Guatemala.
This album is comprised of photographs of Gertrude and Stephen Sanford hunting wild game in East Africa, including elephants, zebras, and water buffalo.
This album is comprised of photographs of Gertrude Sanford Legendre and other members of her family, including her grandfather, Stephen Sanford, her mother, Ethel Sanford, her siblings, Stephen and Sarah Jane Sanford, her husband, Sidney Legendre, and her brother-in-law, Morris Legendre.
This album consists of photographs of Ethel, Stephen, Sarah Jane, and Gertrude Sanford. Photos show Stephen Sanford at St. Mark's School in Massachusetts and the Sanfords traveling in South Carolina, New Jersey, New York, England, France, and Belgium.
This scrapbook is comprised of letters, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other documents related to Gertrude Legendre's work with the Office of Strategic Services in England and France and her subsequent internment as an American prisoner of war in Germany.
This album consists of photos of Gertrude Sanford Legendre and other members of her family, including her mother, Ethel Sanford, and her siblings, Stephen and Sarah Jane Sanford. Photos show places where the Sanford family traveled, including France, England, New York, and South Carolina, and recreational activities in which they participated, including sledding, horseback riding, and tennis.
This album is comprised of portraits and photographs of Gertrude Sanford and members of her family, including her grandmother, Gertrude Ellen du Puy, her father, John Sanford, and her siblings, Stephen and Sarah Jane Sanford.
This album consists of photographs of Gertrude and Sarah Jane Sanford as they traveled through Greece, Turkey, Italy, and Canada, and at home in New York and Maryland.
This album is comprised of photographs of Sanford family members, including John Sanford, his parents, Stephen and Sarah Jane Cochran Sanford, his wife, Ethel Sanford, and their children, Stephen Sanford, Sarah Jane Sanford, and Gertrude Sanford.
Letter from Gertrude Legendre to her husband, Sidney Legendre, regarding her job in the Office of Strategic Services (O.S.S.) taking her to England and all the preparations she was making for the plantation and their children.
Letter from Sidney Legendre to his wife, Gertrude Legendre, recounting the events of a Sunday off from the office that he spent lounging around the apartment as a result of the rain prohibiting him from going to the beach. Sidney continues in his letter to insist that he and Morris and hermits and lament their return to society after the war.
Letter from Sidney Legendre to his wife, Gertrude Legendre, responding to the accusations she made in her last letter about him withholding information about their social activities on the island, that they had purchased a house, and that he was not writing to her “APO number.”
Letter from Sidney Legendre to his wife, Gertrude Legendre, recounting the events of a Sunday off that he spent touring the island and going to the beach.
Letter from Sidney Legendre to his wife, Gertrude Legendre, recounting a story about the policemen they met at the tennis courts and describing how “secretive” his brother, Morris, has become.
Letter from Sidney Legendre to his brother, Armant Legendre, lamenting Armant’s lack of release from the Navy and recounting a story he heard about the entire fleet chasing a single submarine around the Pacific.
Letter from Sidney Legendre to his wife, Gertrude Legendre, lamenting the poor weather they had on his day off from the office, preventing him from going to the beach, and relaying his boredom with how routine his life has become.
Letter from Sidney Legendre to his wife, Gertrude Legendre, regarding the atmosphere of the island now that the Pacific war was drawing to a close, the issues on the island with workers unionizing, and his new assignment in the Navy to present men with medals. Enclosed is a second letter from Sidney Legendre to Gertrude Legendre, regarding the business affairs of the dress shop and describing a house where he had attended dinner.
Letter from Sidney Legendre to his wife, Gertrude Legendre, recounting the events of a day off spent at the beach, boasting that he knows all of his brother, Armant’s, movements with the Navy, and telling of how Morris brow beat their captain into applying to have Armant join them in Hawaii. Sidney continues in his letter to describe their work with the Navy.
Letter from Sidney Legendre to his wife, Gertrude Legendre, regarding her trip to Lisbon and his speculations as to how the war will progress. Sidney continues in his letter to describe an account of the atmosphere of the continental United States he heard from a friend and compare it to what lives they are living “in the lap of luxury” in Hawaii.
