Mrs. Allan Forbes (LOC)
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Mrs. Allan Forbes
[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the
negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.19311
Call Number: LC-B2- 3515-10
Comments and faves
Moonlight Potpourri, .Ottilie., Krrrrs10, AMTER, and 19 other people added this photo to their favorites.
pennylrichardsca (5 weeks ago | reply)
Thisk this is Josephine May Ashton Crosby Forbes (1885-1967), wife of Allan Forbes (1874-1955), mother of five. Josephine and Allan married in 1913.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes_family
Her youngest son, Henry Ashton Crosby Forbes, an expert on Asian art, died just this year (July 2012):
www.legacy.com/obituaries/nhregister/obituary .aspx?pid=15...
The family papers seem to be at the Massachusetts Historical Society:
www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa010 5
swanq (5 weeks ago | reply)
New-York tribune., May 12, 1910, Page 7
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/19 10-05-12/ed-...
Has a group picture of ladies taken at the Actors Fund Fair the night before. Miss Josephine M. Crosby could easily be the same woman as in this photo. She clearly thinks this pose shows her to best advantage.
Zinaida Beaumont (will catch Sunday) (5 weeks ago | reply)
Beautiful picture
Arden (LOC P&P) (4 weeks ago | reply)
pennyrichardsca and swanq:
Thanks for your identification of this woman as Josephine May Ashton Crosby wife of Allan Forbes. We will update the description with more details.