Fred Harvey’s great-granddaughter Jean Vanderbilt just shared with me this never-before-seen shot of Kitty Harvey from the 1950s, which I think really captures her “dead-shot debutante” personality. The eldest daughter of Fred’s son Ford, Kitty was a well-known socialite and Indian art collector based in Kansas City and at the family’s vacation home in Montecito, CA. During the late 1930s–in a drama explained for the first time in the book–Kitty inherited almost the entire Fred Harvey company, but was forced to sell it to her Uncle Byron, who then moved the company HQ to Chicago. As this photo suggests, she lived a pretty good life on the proceeds of the sale, which she was said to have invested brilliantly.

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