armyreliefsociety

7 photos tagged armyreliefsociety, from 1 member of Flickr Commons.

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1910

1915

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The last upload was September 2012.

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mhobl said:
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Just walking, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
mhobl said:

Your Walking-picture is really interesting! Gratulations!
Wystan said:
The Lawn Party on Governors Island in New York harbor was an annual fundraising event for the Army Relief Society, which provided succor to widows and orphans of officers and enlisted men of the regular army. Henry L. Stimson, the newly-appointed Secretary of War, attended this affair on May 25, 1911. Here is another photo of Stimson with General Grant: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163471766/in/p...
Barbara (LOC P&P) said:
Wystan: Thanks for pinning down the event and tying this and related images together. We'll add information when we update the descriptions.

pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:
Mrs. Finley Johnson Shepard = Helen Miller Gould Shepard (1868-1938); she's appeared in the LOC uploads before. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Miller_Gould Madge Luella Shepard (b. 1897) and Marjorie Burr Shepard (1894-1982) are her nieces, the daughters of Louis Jennings Shepard and Mattie Lloyd. wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2... Madge married Vladimir Petersen in 1926. Marjorie married Philip Maynard Morgan in 1920.
swanq said:
Several of these people appear on a page of photos of the 1915 Governors Island Garden Party in the New-York tribune., June 06, 1915, [Page 3, Image 49] chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1915-06-06/ed-... Note that Madge and Marjorie only have a single "p" in their last name.
swanq said:
NYT pictorial section of June 6, 1915, page 8 memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/np_item.pl?collection=sgproto&... or memory.loc.gov/service/sgp/sgpnyt/1915/191506/19150606/00... has a picture of the Shepard girls and their aunt captioned as being at the Governors Island Garden Party

pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:
Helen Miller Gould Shepard (1868-1938): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Miller_Shepard
swanq said:
She appears on a page of photos of the 1915 Governors Island Garden Party in the New-York tribune., June 06, 1915, [Page 3, Image 49] chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1915-06-06/ed-... which also suggests that the officer is Lt. Col. William E. Horton