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Frieda Hempel, in her Jenny Lind Costume-Recital, in Carnegie Hall
Centennial's Celebration of Jenny Lind's birth. This was the first picture
published in color from the oil painting by John Rae, who sat in the first
row of Carnegie Hall and sketched Hempel for the Woman's Home Companion, Feb.
1923 issue, the special article dealt with Lind's successful debút in
America at Castle Garden, which Barnum had just converted to a concert hall
to present her. Previously it was a fort.
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