Vast sums were spent on the Palmer Mansion in Chicago, starting with $100,000 and rising over $1 million.
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According to the author Aline B. Saarinen, "so fabulous were her jewels that a newspaper declared that when she appeared on the S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse with a tiara of diamonds as large as lima beans, a corsage panned with diamonds, a sunburst as big as a baseball, a stomacher of diamonds and all the pearls around her neck, Alois Burgskeller of the Metropolitan Opera, who was singing at the ship's concert, was stopped right in the middle of a high note."
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Upon her death at her winter residence, The Oaks in Osprey, Florida, her body was returned to Chicago to lie in state at the Castle, the sumptuous mansion Potter Palmer had built on Chicago's Gold Coast.
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In September 1907, Bertha Palmer and her son Potter II took part in the maiden voyage of the new Cunard liner RMS Lusitania from Liverpool to New York.
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The Board of Women's Managers was led by the Chicago art collector Bertha Palmer, who worked closely with the curator Sarah Tyson Hallowell on the art for the women's building.
The renderings by Grell are of prominent Chicago ladies from 1800 through 1930 and include: Archange Quilmette, Ann Whistler, Eleanor Kinzie, Eliza Chappell, Pamalie Calhoun, Nettie MaCormick, Mary Booth, Helen De Koven, Lady Patterson, Maria Werkmeister, Bertha Palmer, Gibson Girl.