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Collection Summary
Collection: 00042 - Marquis de Mores Photograph Collection
Folder: 0005
Item: 00199
Title: Portrait of Medora Marquise de Mores with Louis and Athenais
Date: 1886
Creator: Bogardus, A.--(Abraham),--1822-1908
Inscription/Marks: [front] A. Bogardus, 872 Broadway Cor.18th St., N.Y. [back] A. Bogardus, Photographer 872 Broadway Corner 18th Street New York. A. Bogardus. Collection number has been changed from 0042-174 to 00042-00199.
Summary: Medora, Marquise de Mores poses for a formal portrait with her children Louis and Athenais. All three are dressed in winter outerwear edged with fur.||Medora Von Hoffmann was the daughter of a wealthy New York banker, and was born in 1856. She spoke seven languages, and was an excellent painter and shooter. She was living in Cannes with her parents when she met the Marquis de Mores, who she married in 1882. She had three children, Athenais, Louis, and Paul. She spent summers in Medora, the town her husband named after her, from 1883 to 1886. After the death of her husband in 1896, the Marquise de Mores remained in France, and opened her house to wounded soldiers during World War I. She died of complications of a wound received from nursing soldiers in 1921.Athenais Vallombrosa was born in New York in 1883, and was named after Medora's mother. She was only a few months old when brought out to Dakota Territory in the summer of 1883. She was married at age 17 to Baron Pichon, a French ambassador. Her daughter, Thais, died at age 19 in a horseback riding accident. In 1929, Athenais married Baron de Graffonrud, he died in 1936. She then married Henry Guerracina and moved to Argentina during World War II. She returned to France in 1950, where shed died in 1969.Louis, Duke de Vallombrosa was born in New York in 1885, and brought to Dakota Territory as an infant. After leaving Dakota Territory in 1886, he grew up in France, and returned to North Dakota in 1903 for a visit with his mother Medora and sister Athenais. He was educated at Yale University and married in 1918. His son Antoinne or Tony was born in 1921. Louis was a banker until 1936 when he retired and moved to Switzerland, the same year he deeded the Chateau de Mores to the state of North Dakota.
Red ID: PH_I_144388 Image ID: 166545 Image Notes: 00042-00199

Collection: 00042 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Marquis de Mores Photograph Collection
Date: Circa 1860-1960

Summary: An artificial collection from a variety of sources, the collection includes images of family and businesses owned by Marquis de Mores, primarily in Medora, ND and in France. Includes prints, negatives, and albums.

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