Mrs. Jas. Blair, Mrs. B. Cochran [i.e., Cockran], Mrs. Archer Huntington, Mrs. T. Roosevelt Jr. (LOC)
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Mrs. Jas. Blair, Mrs. B. Cochran [i.e., Cockran], Mrs. Archer Huntington, Mrs. T. Roosevelt Jr.
[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.
Photo shows Mrs. Bourke Cockran, wife of New York politician William
Bourke Cockran (1854-1923) with Mrs. Eleanor B. Roosevelt, wife of
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. and others. (Source: Flickr Commons project,
2010)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Roosevelt, Eleanor Butler,--1889-1960.
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.18362
Call Number: LC-B2- 3377-1
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pennylrichardsca (10 months ago | reply)
Mrs. Archer Huntington is probably the first Mrs. Archer Huntington, Helen Manchester Gates, a writer; they were married 1895-1918.
swanq (10 months ago | reply)
The sun., February 05, 1915, Page 9
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/19 15-02-05/ed-...
reports that next Tuesday afternoon, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and others would be offering toys made by women and children of Brittany. The event was described as a dramatic tea and fête. It was to raise funds for suffrage efforts and for unemployed women of the city.
swanq (10 months ago | reply)
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. is the former Miss Eleanor Butler Alexander.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Butler_Alexande r-Roosevelt
swanq (10 months ago | reply)
Another Bain photo of Mrs T. Roosevelt, Jr., with Mrs. Bourke Cockran (and her husband) is at
swanq (10 months ago | reply)
www.loc.gov/pictures/item/00650023/
is the record for a set of family albums compiled by Eleanor Butler Alexander Roosevelt. Two (out of 25) have been digitized as volumes (including the one with a date range covering 1915). However, this event doesn't get a mention.
swanq (10 months ago | reply)
According to www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr& GRid=15079271 and www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr& GRid=43902746
Mrs Bourke Cockran was Anne Louisa Ide Cockran (1876 - 1945)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Clay_Ide#Family.2 C_personal_l...
indicates that she was his third wife and that they married in 1906. She was over twenty years his junior.
In that Wikipedia page she has the middle initial H. A delightful tidbit is that she was born on Christmas Day. When her father, Henry Clay Ide, was governor in Samoa, Robert Louis Stevenson, who lived there, sent a delightful letter/contract to her father, donating her the middle name of Louisa and his birthday (since he was too old to have need of one!). See NYT of July 24, 1906
query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9805E ED9143DE733A...
swanq (10 months ago | reply)
www.historicalsocietyofsomersethills.org/blai rsden.php mentions "the James A. Blair country estate, "Ontare," in Oyster Bay Cove, New York (extant)"
Which leads to www.oldlongisland.com/2011/12/ontare.html
which mentions that the house was built around 1910 for James Alonzo Blair, Sr.
With the Oyster Bay connection to the Roosevelts, it seems possible that the Mrs Jas. Blair in the picture is the wife of James Alonzo Blair, Jr.
Note: NYT of July 16, 1914
query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70F1 6F6345D13738...
mentions that Isabelle Myers Blair, wife of Blair, Sr. was 54. The Mrs Jas Blair in the picture looks younger than that, I think
Since Oyster Bay is in Nassau County, NY, www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr& GRid=44966495
could be for the father. Which would make the son www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr& GRid=44966434 -- buried beside his parents, but there is no mention of a wife.
www.abebooks.com/9789627502623/Blair-Bequest- Chinese-Snuf... describes a book that apparently has a biography of the "elusive Colonel James A. Blair, Jr." There is plenty to find in newspapers about Blair Jr. as aviator and officer in the Aero Club of America.
swanq (10 months ago | reply)
Tracked down an obituary for Colonel James A. Blair, Jr
select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70B 14F63858177A...
It describes him as unmarried. So this hypothesis has led to a dead end
swanq (10 months ago | reply)
Taking another (more successful) tack on Mrs. Blair.
The New York Sun., February 05, 1915, Page 9 (see above)
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/19 15-02-05/ed-...
lists a Mrs JOHN Blair as one of the organizers. This makes sense since a Mrs. John Blair was chairman of the publicity committee of Woman's Suffrage in New York (at least in December 1916). See www.apimages.com/OneUp.aspx?st=k&kw=16120 2015
The woman on the left of the AP photo is certainly a possible match to the woman on the left here.
An obituary for Mrs. John Blair, NYT, November 06, 1930 [needs subscription] also has a photo that matches
select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70B 13F83D5C117A...
She was the former Miss Ida Chester Reid. Her husband was an actor, as mentioned in
The New York Sun., April 26, 1910, Page 7
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/19 10-04-26/ed-... in a piece reporting that her sister Estelle had been found murdered on a beach in Naples, Italy.
See www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=32216 for John Blair's Broadway career.
So, I've convinced myself that Bain mis-identified the woman on the left of this photo. She is Mrs. John Blair not Mrs, Jas. (i.e. James) Blair.
Aside to LoC: I believe there is also mis-identification on www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2001704315/ (a Bain photo not yet mounted on Flickr), captioned Suffragettes - Mrs. John Blair, Mrs. N. de R. Whitehouse, Mrs. J.L. Laidlaw. Of the three pictured, I think the names Bain wrote on the negative were swapped for the two outer women.
Pixel Wrangler (10 months ago | reply)
Votes For WomenVotes for Mrs. John Blair
@ swanq — you have my vote for Mrs. "John" Blair ;-)
Here's another photograph of Mrs. John Blair from the September 15, 1917, issue of Vogue.
Pixel Wrangler (10 months ago | reply)
And, from the "small-world department" ;-) when Winston Churchill first visited New York in 1895, he stayed with Mr. Bourke Cockran, whose third wife is pictured above. Bourke Cockran was a lover of Jennie Churchill, Winston's mother. [1]
On a return trip in 1900, Winston was again lavishly entertained by Bourke Cockran, who organized a dinner for him at the Waldorf. Winston received an invitation to dine with then New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt, who was related to his mother, Jennie Churchill.[2] Theodore Roosevelt was also the father of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., whose wife, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr., is in the above photograph.
Pete (LOC P&P) (10 months ago | reply)
swanq: thanks for your research. We may update the record to correctly identify Mrs. Blair.
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Farshad Sanaee The Apple (9 months ago | reply)
Where Are They Now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????