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This is a series of portraits of the family of composer Sidney Homer (1864-1953) and his wife contralto Louise Dilworth Homer née Beatty (1871-1947). Homer composed many of his songs with the voice of his famous wife in mind. Among his most famous songs are "A Banjo Song" (Weeden), "Requiem" (Stevenson), "Casey at the Bat" (Thayer), and "The House that Jack Built" ("Mother Goose.") Louise Homer made her American opera debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in 1900 singing Amneris in Verdi's Aida. She sang at the Met for 19 consecutive seasons, often singing opposite such acclaimed singers as Enrico Caruso, Geraldine Farrar, and Ernestine Schumann-Heink. Composer Samuel Barber was her nephew. In 1923 and 1924 she was listed as one of the 12 greatest living women by the National League of Women Voters. They had six children, including twin daughters Anne Homer and Kathryn Homer, son Sidney Homer, Jr. (economist and author), and daughter Louise Homer.  [1] [2] There are currently 33 photographs of the Homer family in the Bain Collection on Flickr. You can view them all here. They were first identified by Art Siegel, B-59, pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity), Wystan, swanq, and Richard Norton.

This is a series of portraits of the family of composer Sidney Homer (1864-1953) and his wife contralto Louise Dilworth Homer née Beatty (1871-1947). Homer composed many of his songs with the voice of his famous wife in mind. Among his most famous songs are "A Banjo Song" (Weeden), "Requiem" (Stevenson), "Casey at the Bat" (Thayer), and "The House that Jack Built" ("Mother Goose.") Louise Homer made her American opera debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in 1900 singing Amneris in Verdi's Aida. She sang at the Met for 19 consecutive seasons, often singing opposite such acclaimed singers as Enrico Caruso, Geraldine Farrar, and Ernestine Schumann-Heink. Composer Samuel Barber was her nephew. In 1923 and 1924 she was listed as one of the 12 greatest living women by the National League of Women Voters. They had six children, including twin daughters Anne Homer and Kathryn Homer, son Sidney Homer, Jr. (economist and author), and daughter Louise Homer.  [1] [2] There are currently 33 photographs of the Homer family in the Bain Collection on Flickr. You can view them all here. They were first identified by Art Siegel, B-59, pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity), Wystan, swanq, and Richard Norton.

C. W. Russell (Charles W. Russell, Charles Wells Russell, Hon. Charles Wells Russell) (1856-1927) was an American lawyer, author and poet. He was a son of Charles Wells Russell (1818-1867) and Margaret Wilson (Moore) Russell. His father was a prominent Confederate States of America politician during the American Civil War. He graduated from Georgetown University with a Master of Laws in 1884. Charles married Lucy Floyd Mosby in 1879. After her death he married her sister Lelia James Mosby in 1885. They had three children, John W. Russell, Margaret Moore Russell (Mosby) and Lucy Virginia Russell. Lucy married Alfred James Ogster in 1917. He was the British Consul in Galveston, Texas. C. W. Russell entered the Department of Justice, Washington in 1886. He was a U.S. Assistant Attorney General and U.S. Minister to Persia (1909-14). He successfully argued many French spoliation cases, the Maine explosion case and was involved with many Panama Canal issues. Charles W. Russell wrote a play "Cuba Libre" and four collections of poems, including "The Secret Place and Other Poems" (1911) and "Iranian Rest and Other Lyrics" (1912). He also edited the "Memoirs of Colonel John Singleton Mosby" (his brother-in-law) in 1917. In the news:  It could be this photograph was in the news in August and September of 1919 as details of the Versailles Treaty were being hammered out in an attempt to have it ratified by Congress. President Wilson was fundamentally opposed to any changes that would send the treaty back to Paris. Among many other issues, there were protests from Hungary, Albania, and Persia. C. W. Russell, former American Minister to Persia spoke before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee saying that the Anglo-Persian Treaty robbed Persia of much of her sovereignty. Senator Philander C. Knox, former Secretary of State pushed for the right of self determination of Persia. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] There is an additional photograph of Charles W. Russell in the C.M. Bell Studio Collection at The Library of Congress.

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