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Frank Lloyd Wright's Granddaughter Recalls Grandfather's Advice on Nonconformity
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Film star Anne Baxter attends a private memorial dinner at Taliesin observing the 90th birthday anniversary of her grandfather, Frank Lloyd Wright, along with about 250 other guests. Miss Baxter recalled her grandfather's advice that "Habit of any kind is absolute death. You must change, you must grow, you must not be hemmed in with habits."
June 8, 1959
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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Frank Lloyd Wright, Catherine Dorothy Wright Baxter and Anne Baxter at Taliesin West
May 1959
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright with his granddaughter, actress Anne Baxter, and her mother, Wright's daughter from his first marriage, Catherine Dorothy Wright Baxter, at Taliesin West. This may be ...
Wright for Stevenson
1952
Among those attending a dinner for Democratic Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson in 1952 was Frank Lloyd Wright and Oligavanna Lloyd Wright.
Frank Lloyd Wright and Daughter
1927
Frank Lloyd Wright holds his baby daughter, Iovanna, in an outdoor informal portrait. She is looking at the camera and he is gazing at her. Iovanna Lazovich Lloyd Wright was born on December 2, 192...
Aerial Photographs of Taliesin
April 21, 1949
Taliesin, the home of Frank Lloyd Wright near Spring Green. Taliesin is located in the vicinity of Spring Green, Wisconsin.
Stoughton Home Talent League Champions
November 1, 1945
Curtis Strand and Roundy Coughlin, the speaker at the banquet of the Stoughton Home Talent League champion baseball team.
Unitarian Anniversary
May 19, 1954
The head table at a dinner marking the 75th anniversary of the First Unitarian Society of Madison. Seated at the table are Frank Lloyd Wright and, next to him, minister Max Gaebler. Wright, who des...
