Valerie HarrisApr 163 minFound! A Long-lost Painting By Laura Wheeler Waring“Dear Ms. Harris, My mother moved to a senior facility prior to passing away in 2016. In downsizing, some of her pictures were moved into...
Valerie HarrisApr 24 min"Darn This War!" The dream summer in Paris ends abruptly Settling into her summer sojourn, Laura began plotting her version of the grand tour. “From Paris I intended to go to Geneva and then to...
Valerie HarrisMar 263 minSisters Abroad: Laura Wheeler Waring and Jessie Fauset, Paris, 1914Although Laura was now in Paris independent of her Academy classmates, she was not alone for long. Visiting Paris at the time were two...
Valerie HarrisMar 193 minThe First Time She Saw Paris... Laura Wheeler Waring, 1914“Miss Laura Wheeler, a colored girl of Hartford, Conn., has been awarded a European Traveling Scholarship by the Pennsylvania Academy of...