The Crime of the Century

white gets one of the most well-known photographers in New York to take some pictures of the young beauty in his apartment well we have here at the National Museum of American history an album of photographs that were commissioned by Stanford white and they are portraits of Evelyn Nesbit made by Rudolf Ike Meyer in 1901 Ike Meyer was a success in the new field of commercial photography but in Evelyn he would find the perfect muse her direct and seductive gaze was unique for the time white had an array of costumes for her to wear she is in lots of jewels and almost gypsy like and in some appearance or she is like the Grecian girl or she's very demure and it's interesting that weight had her dressing in all these different eras it interestings one word for it and I need her riding a Harley Oh what's a Harley don't worry about it just get her riding something who knows who knows what you know what was in whites going through White's mind what he was requesting joy a lot of robes lot of rooms empowering a lot of pouting here she is sitting on top of the live bear and there's a tiger as well that you'll also see her within some of the other shots but I don't know what other animals were in that apartment as well we've seen the tiger well I'll tell you another animal is in the apartment white himself thank you very much the day after the photography shoot is actually when white invites her to his apartment when her mother is out of town and that's actually when they begin the affair their affair ended after about a year in short order Evelyn began seeing a new rich older man Henry thaw you

Channel: Smithsonian Channel

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Keywords: crime, photography, villains, smithsonian, tom, true stories, rogues, culture, stories, vaults, cavanagh

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Length: 2min 6sec (126 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 10 2015