Who is this lady?

[RJNorton]

(02-06-2019 08:49 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  As for Vinnie Ream - I wonder what a harp cost back then. It costs as much as a car now...

Eva, thanks to Tom Bogar's kindness, I have a book entitled Vinnie Ream: An American Sculptor. I was able to find the answer in that book. Vinnie bought the harp from Evard Harp Manufactory for $600 with a seven-dollar extra charge for strings. This happened while she was in Paris in 1869. I put $607 into an inflation calculator, and it came to $11,213.12 in today's dollars. That seems low to me; there are several inflation calculators online. Possibly another one would yield a different amount.