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Helen Clay Frick was the richest woman in America when her father, industrialist Henry Clay Frick died. What did she do with her fortune? She established one of the most important special libraries and set about documenting Western Art. Among other things, her library became crucial in repatriating works of art stolen by the Nazis in WWII.

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