Talk:Brooke Astor

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Why is the page displaying twice? Can someone fix that?Ryoung122 20:51, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

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File:Brooke Astor at the Metropolitan Museum of NY - April 25th 2.007 - Para Wikipedia.jpg

Is this Brooke Astor? Genisock2 22:54, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

There is a fine picture here. I don't know about copyright Xxanthippe 03:23, 8 September 2007 (UTC).

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/13/brooke-astor-is-dead-at-105/

I'm pretty confident in terms of copyright. Just wanted the ID checked.Genisock2 11:56, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

There is no way this image is of Brooke Astor; as of the reported date on the image, she was confined to her home in Briarcliff Manor, NY, a total invalid. I called the Metropolitan Museum of Art this morning and was told there was no way she was there in April, much less being photographed.Kitchawan 16:10, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

I have looked at the file in Wikipedia.jpg and it states that some tourist named Botero took the snapshot in April 2007 and that he identified it as BA after her death. He is mistaken in his identification, not only because Mrs A was an invalid at her home at the time and had been for months and months. Secondly, check out the Metropolitan Museum metal ID tab on her blouse (you think they're going to make a major benefactor wear one of those -- believe me, they don't). Also the shape of the nostrils is wrong (Mrs A, as you can see in most of her photographs, had a notably distended right nostril). Et cetera, et cetera. My vote is to remove that image from the picture bank and the article and replace it ASAP with an accurate image. Does anyone have access to a copyright-free image of her in her prime?Kitchawan 16:18, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Unless she had some public dealings with the US federal government it seems unlikely.Genisock2 16:25, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Flags, Fifth Avenue

I removed the sentence where someone disputed the bit about "Flags, Fifth Avenue," (saying that it was acquired by the museum in 1975 was therefore not Brooke Astor's) as it constituted discussion on the article page.

As far as the merits, I found confirmation of the story, as is, here: http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/2006/08/01/2006-08-01_new_red_flag__did_son_sell_b.html in case anyone wants to cite it. I'm not good at that. 72.145.146.20 (talk) 01:55, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

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