Alma de Bretteville Spreckels (March 24, 1881 – August 7, 1968) was a wealthy socialite and philanthropist in San Francisco, California. She was known...
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Adolph B. Spreckels. Craig, Christopher. "Spreckels (née de Bretteville), Alma Emma". Encyclopedia of San Francisco. Archived...
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Bretteville-du-Grand-Caux Bretteville-Saint-Laurent Varneville-Bretteville Bretteville family Alma de Bretteville Spreckels (1881–1968), an American socialite...
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Legion of Honor. The suite for Alma de Bretteville Spreckels featured Louis XIV furniture and the suite for Adolph Spreckels featured Colonial Georgian furniture...
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was the gift of Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, wife of the sugar magnate and thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder Adolph B. Spreckels.: 9–10 After some...
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professor Alma Siedhoff-Buscher (1899–1944), Bauhaus trained German designer Alma Söderhjelm (1870–1949), Swedish-Finnish historian Alma de Bretteville Spreckels...
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D. Spreckels, son of Claus Spreckels and entrepreneur Adolph B. Spreckels, son of Claus Spreckels and an entrepreneur and philanthropist Alma de Bretteville...
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bounded by Van Ness Avenue, Polk Street, and Hyde Street. Alma de Bretteville Spreckels' last major project was the construction of the San Francisco...
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was the gift of Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, wife of the sugar magnate and thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder Adolph B. Spreckels. The building is...
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wreath that represents McKinley. Legend holds that Aitken hired Alma de Bretteville Spreckels to model for the statue, but a 1902 article detailing the monument's...
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acquired the mannequins in 1952 through a donation by art patron Alma de Bretteville Spreckels. The original sets accompanying the dolls, which had been crafted...
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Maryhill Museum owes a profound debt to its fourth great patron, Alma de Bretteville Spreckels. Following the deaths of Hill (1931), Fuller (1928) and Queen...
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Jean de Botton with Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, collection of the San Francisco Public Library Enchanted Landscape and Feu de Joie by Jean de Botton...
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California. In 1911 Alma de Bretteville Spreckels and her husband Adolph B. Spreckels, park commissioner and namesake of Spreckels Lake, wanted M. Earl...
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Art Gallery in Monterey, California in 1907. Philanthropist Alma de Bretteville Spreckels owned 37 of his paintings. Sparks was married to Ethel Martin...
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biological father Ted Jorgensen, son of Danish immigrants Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, philanthropist John Wayne Gacy (1942–1994), serial killer Robert...
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husband remarried to Dorothy Spreckels (daughter of Sugar tycoon Adolph B. Spreckels and his wife, Alma de Bretteville Spreckels). She died in Paris on July...
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List of Légion d'honneur recipients by name (D) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
August 2021. Retrieved 29 July 2021. Craig, Christopher. "Spreckels (née de Bretteville), Alma Emma". Encyclopedia of San Francisco. Archived from the original...
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2021. Wattel, Michel; Wattel, Béatrice (2009). "Les Grand Croix de la Légion d'honneur. De 1805 à nos jours, titulaires français et étrangers". Archives...
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September 15, 1941, sold it for $2,500 to San Francisco socialite Alma de Bretteville Spreckels and her second husband Elmer M. Awl. The headline on the August...
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Union Square, San Francisco (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
after a voluptuous Danish-American stenographer and artist's model, Alma de Bretteville, who eventually married one of San Francisco's richest citizens....
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