Frances Breese (LOC)
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Frances Breese
[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
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.19463
Call Number: LC-B2- 3540-1
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Rashard&Erika, hjk 4711, Esdras Jaimes, Moonlight Potpourri, and 116 other people added this photo to their favorites.
Film&PhotoArchivist (5 days ago | reply)
Born on 1916 to James Lawrence Breese and Marjorie Howard Gorges. Frances married Private Kilham and had 3 children. She passed away on 1998.
Sunciti _ Sundaram's Images + Messages (5 days ago | reply)
Lovely Work and I Like It.
pbhome (5 days ago | reply)
If she was born in 1916, she should not be this grown up in this picture which dated between 1910-1915.
I think the Frances Breese here is likely to be an author who wrote a charming story in the New York Magazine - "Frances Millers" (1). If this is the case, she is the daughter of James Lawrence Breese a partner in "Breese & Smith" brokerage firm. (2)
There is some interesting information about her in the "Weekend Utopia" by Alastair Gordon (page 35). You can read that section on books.google.com
There is a picture of her when graduated from high school at Photo Seed Blog, if you are interested.
I'm not sure why Bain took her photo. However, if the date is between 1910-1915, I assume that this is her picture with her husband - Larry Miller - a stock broker.
References:
1. Miller, Frances, "Calling Day 1902" books.google.com, retrieved November 2nd, 2012
2. www.oldlongisland.com/2010/08/orchard.html , retrieved November 2nd, 2012
pbhome (5 days ago | reply)
pinkyhonor (4 days ago | reply)
lovely.
Thomas Dwyer (3 days ago | reply)
Art!
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smrisk (2 days ago | reply)
so rare- love the veil!
swanq (2 days ago | reply)
Frances Breese Miller's father had an estate and house in Southampton, NY, on Long Island. So the beach might well be at Southampton. See
for a picture of the estate in another LoC collection.
timothybreese.com/familyhistory/genealogy.htm l is a family genealogy. Frances Tileston Breese married Lawrence McKeever Miller on 9 October 1915.
swanq (2 days ago | reply)
See archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/BREESE /2000-01/094...
'Frances Tileston Breese, my Grandmother, was born on November 29, 1893 in New
York City and died near her father's mansion "The Orchard" in on June 13, 1985
in Southampton, L.I., NY.
She wrote three wonderful autobiographies: "Tanty," "More About Tanty," and
"Tanty: The Daring Decades." She was a fascinating person and a wonderful
artist. She studied art in Paris, and after raising her children divorced my
Grandfather to pursue her art: modern design and primitive painting. This took
her to Haiti where she met and married a black Haitian and tried to bring him
back into New York Society in the 50's! She designed and built one of the first
modern beach houses on Long Island, "The Sandbox."'
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Lullaby_Mode (12 minutes ago | reply)
this photo is beauty :) really...