• This may be one of the Bain dates, scratched in reverse onto the back of the negative. Can anyone make it out? - Wystan

Dorothy & G.W. Perkins (LOC)

Bain News Service,, publisher.

Dorothy & G.W. Perkins

[between 1910 and 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 business executive and politician George Walbridge Perkins (1862-1920). The U.S. Capitol building is in the background. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)
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

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.13502

Call Number: LC-B2- 2750-7

Comments and faves

  1. Harry Angstrom (42 months ago | reply)

    June 23, 1920, Wednesday - NYTimes
    The will of George W. Perkins, retired partner in J.P. Morgan Co., which disposes of an estate of more than $10,000,000, and gives the bulk of his estate to his wife, son and daughter, was filed for probate yesterday in the Surrogates' .

    Wikipedia article: George Walbridge Perkins:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Walbridge_Perkin s

    Dorothy was his daughter.

  2. Ryan (LOC P&P) (42 months ago | reply)

    Thanks Harry, for providing more information about George Walbridge Perkins. The library has another photograph of him taken in Washington, D.C. around 1911. Do you think that is the Capitol building behind him and his daughter in this photograph? If so, it would mean that it was taken around the same time.

  3. Wystan (42 months ago | reply)

    Definitely the Capitol.

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  5. artolog (14 months ago | reply)

    Dorothy died in 1990, at the age of 99, and had in 1960 given the Perkins family's huge estate in Riverdale, New York to the city. It is now the Wave Hill public garden and cultural center. wavehill.org/home/

    Dorothy Perkins Freeman's obituary:
    www.nytimes.com/1990/10/03/obituaries/dorothy -p-freeman-d...

  6. Ryan (LOC P&P) (14 months ago | reply)

    Thanks artolog, for filling in Dorothy's side of the story. We'll add some information about her to the record the next time we update.

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