Eleanor Davies -- Marion Gibney -- Emalena Sizer -- Caryl Hackstaff -- Elizabeth Kirlin -- Laura Parsons -- Sophie Young, Elise Rice (LOC)
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Eleanor Davies -- Marion Gibney -- Emalena Sizer -- Caryl Hackstaff -- Elizabeth Kirlin -- Laura Parsons -- Sophie Young, Elise Rice
[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.18936
Call Number: LC-B2- 3452-2
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pennylrichardsca (4 months ago | reply)
Emmelena (that sp) Sizer and Elizabeth Kirlin were among the society girls who performed as dancers at a 28 March 1915 benefit for the International Child Welfare League, at the Plaza in New York. Didn't see any of the other girls' names in the list, though. She also turns up in the list of girls dancing at a benefit for the New York Nursery and Child's Hospital, also at the Plaza in New York, in December 1915. With the two-m spelling, this seems to be the same woman:
Emmalena Sizer Duncan (1894-1968), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ryland Sizer of New York and Long Island; wife of David Duncan, WWI veteran, Harvard 1917.
www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr& GRid=12621868
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artolog (4 months ago | reply)
Found something more specific:
These women are the fairies from an all-female amateur musical comedy (Old King Cole) put on for charity at the Plaza ballroom in New York on April 15, 1915 by Miss Spence's School Society. The Society was an alumnae group of The Spence School, a girl's school still functioning.(www.spenceschool.org) A New York Times account:
query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D 05E3DF1338E6...
A commenter on shorpy.com made the connection:
shorpy.zipreference.com/node/12517#comment-13 2707
More photos from the production:
pennylrichardsca (4 months ago | reply)
Marion P. Gibney Patterson was the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Virgil Pendleton Gibney of New York City. In 1917 she married Dr. Daniel Cleveland Patterson (1882-1946) of Bridgeport. Daniel was a surgeon, founding member of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma. Her father Virgil was also a surgeon, founding member of the American Orthopaedic Association, and first Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Columbia Medical College.
A biographical sketch of her father:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2806971/
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pennylrichardsca (4 months ago | reply)
Sophie Young Hubbell was the daughter of Mrs. John Manning Young (formerly Sophia Milbank) of Lexington Avenue, at the time of her coming out tea, in December 1913. Marion Gibney attended the tea. Sophie married Captain George Loring Hubbell Jr., of Long Island, in October 1917. Her matron of honor at the wedding? Marion Gibney Patterson. The Hubbells had at least six children: George III, William (1929-2002), Elizabeth, Barbara (1924-2007), Sophie, and Susan. George Jr. was elected mayor of Garden City NY in 1931.
www.arlingtoncemetery.net/wmhubbell.htm
pennylrichardsca (4 months ago | reply)
This seems likely as the Eleanor Davies in the image:
Eleanor van G. Davies was daughter of Mrs. Richard T. Davies of New York City, at the time of her debutante dance in January 1914. Eleanor married stock broker Eugene Hoyne de Bronkart (1888-1968) of Chicago, in January 1916. They had at least two children, a son, Richard Davies deBronkart (1922-2005), and a daughter Elinor. (Eleanor Davies seems to have used the spelling "Elinor" in adulthood.)
www.capitalgazette.com/news/fortherecord/june -obituaries/...
Her grandson Richard Davies "Dave" deBronkart Jr. (b. 1950) is notable as "e-Patient Dave," an advocate of participatory medicine, accurate health records, and patient empowerment:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_deBronkart
pennylrichardsca (4 months ago | reply)
This Laura Parsons is the right age and place...
Laura Cecilia Parsons Pratt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Parsons of New York and Glen Cove LI, married Richardson Pratt (1894-1959) in November 1917; they had two children, Mary (b. 1920) and Richardson Pratt Jr. (1923-2001). Laura's son, president of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn (1972-1990) and longtime mayor of Lloyd Harbor, elsewhere on Flickr:
The Laura Parsons Pratt Conference Center in Gramercy Park might be named for her?
www.fpwa.org/cgi-bin/iowa/host/index.html
pennylrichardsca (4 months ago | reply)
Finishing up this group--think I finally found Elizabeth Kirlin:
Elizabeth Louise Kirlin (b. 1894), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Parker Kirlin, married Cletus Keating in 1920. Joseph Parker Kirlin (1861-1927) was a Scranton-born attorney, specializing in maritime law. Mrs. Kirlin was the former Elizabeth Burt of Detroit. Cletus Keating (1891-) was also a lawyer. They raised at least four children together: Cletus Jr., Anne, Parker, and Marshall. (Cletus Jr., b 1916, seems to have been the child of his father's first, brief marriage to Maud Scott, who died in 1917.)
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Kristi (LOC P&P) (3 months ago | reply)
pennylrichardsca and artolog:
Wow, you did some extensive research for us on this photograph. Thanks for sharing all of the names and background info. This will enable us to expand the caption information for this image as well as the photos found elsewhere in the collection which were cropped from this original group shot.
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