Jean and Charlotte Potter (LOC)
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Jean and Charlotte Potter
[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.19461
Call Number: LC-B2- 3539-12
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ifa15051981, Rashard&Erika, pmfordseattle, Moonlight Potpourri, and 67 other people added this photo to their favorites.
pennylrichardsca (5 days ago | reply)
There's a mention of "Miss Jean Potter and Miss Charlotte Potter" being "on the beach" at Southampton in summer 1922 (apparently visiting for the festivities surrounding a tennis tournament):
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/19 22-07-07/ed-...
"Jean and Charlotte Potter" took part in a 1922 circus-themed fair at Agawam Park, to benefit Southampton Hospital (they helped run the roasted peanuts and popcorn concession).
query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00D1 6FF385D1A7A9...
The two Potter girls are also listed among the young women selling programs for a performance at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton that year (New York Tribune, 3 September 1922).
I think they're the daughters of banker William Chapman Potter and Caroline Morton Potter, who were divorcing in 1922 (which might account for the girls' busy social calendar that year). Reports about the divorce mention they have two daughters, 17 and 19. Mrs. Potter was residing in Paris at the time.
query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30A1 5FB355A1B7A9...
They had a half-sister, Diana Guggenheim (1924-1991), aka Diane Hamilton:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Hamilton
Jean Potter married artist Frederick Soldwedel; they divorced in 1930. Then she married Lt. Edmund C. Stout; she was widowed in 1943 when he died from an accidental gunshot wound in their home in Florida.
Charlotte Potter married Reginald M. Lewis in 1926, and divorced him in 1930; then she married a man named Atwood, as his second wife, c1932.
jelon71 (5 days ago | reply)
Two young ladies. Beautiful.
jb.l (4 days ago | reply)
superbe
BEGUINPHOTOGRAPHIES (4 days ago | reply)
We are spirits.
Zinaida Beaumont (will catch Sunday) (3 days ago | reply)
1912 and so modern as a picture
Thomas Dwyer (3 days ago | reply)
Classic.
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swanq (2 days ago | reply)
As well as the 1922 mention of the girls being "on the beach" in Southampton, they were at Southampton in 1913
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/19 13-08-24/ed-...
It seems likely that this group of photos on a beach are all from Southampton, since Frances Breese lived here and Goodhue Livingston also had a house there.