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Here is Ms. Noyes dressed as Lady Liberty in another LOC photo: www.loc.gov/shop/index.php?action=cCatalog.showItem&c...

I think this must be an early photo of mystery writer Frances Noyes Hart. The Noyes family owned the Washington Star, so her photo showing up in a newspaper even before she published any of her books would not be surprising.

In regard to captainslack's comment above: the LOC photo linked there does not depict Frances Noyes, but dancer Florence Fleming Noyes.

Thanks for pointing out potential connections to other Library of Congress photographs -- and potential identity confusions! If you want to see even more of the story on identity confusions (not Florence Noyes and not Lady Liberty according to information researchers gave us), see the image and revised title in the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.00032

The photo of Hedwig Reicher in costume as Columbia is all over the Internet, identified as Florence F. Noyes as Liberty. Everybody must be relying on the misleading Bain caption. The LOC does have a decent photo of Florence Fleming Noyes, but the photo with Hedwig Reichert isn't big enough, even in its TIFF version, to be able to make a comparison between the picture of Ms. Noyes and the background figures in the Reichert photo to determine if she is among them. The LOC also has another photo of Frances Noyes, but it is in the Arnold Genthe collection which has not been made available online in large versions. From the thumbnail (use the terms "Noyes, Miss" on the Prints & Photographs search page), it appears to be the same woman at the wheel of the car in the photo above, though somewhat gussied up. It occurs to me that, since Frances Noyes served as an ambulance driver during WWI (her first published book was about her war experiences- available for download in several formats here at the Internet Archive), the photo above may depict her at about that time- perhaps 1917-1918. The right-hand-drive car suggests that the photograph might have been taken in England.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Coliseum

Do we know what street that's on? I'd love to see if there are any remaining remnants from this time.

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I saw this Spectacular Photo in:
Chicagoland Architecture, Engineering and Art!
(Open Join!)

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Ahhh... okay... 15th and Wabash (from the wiki link above). South of Roosevelt, huh? hmmm... I'll have to wander around down there and see what I can find. Google says there's just a park there now called, "Coliseum Park."

Ematu: According to the Chicago Park District website, the park was named in honor of the coliseum that had existed on a part of the site at East 14th and South Wabash Avenues. If you get over there, let us know if you find any remnants from the time.

What a lot of red cars!

For once, I can indentify some of the cars here!

I can see 3 Austin Montegos, 4 Vauxhall Novas, an Astramax van, 2 Ford Escorts (one might be an XR3i), a Renault Traffic van, an RUC Tangi Landrover, a Ford Sierra, a Toyota Litace, a Mitsubishi Colt, a C Class Mercedes, I think the nose of an Austin Mini Mastro, a Transit van, a Renault 5, a Renault 4 van, a Suzuki Swift, 2 Fiat Pandas and a Nissan Bluebird. The dark grey tail on the right foreground might be a Ford Cortina. The blue car behind the Transit van might be a Peugeot estate. The red car behind the Astramax van might be a Ford Sierra (face lift version, so newer than the one on the other side of the road. The blue car parked in the middle 3rd along might be a 4th Montego. The car being twoed by the recovery truck looks to be an old mercedes. The green car in the foreground I think is a Triumph.

Nearly sure it's a Liteace, not a Hiace. Liteace - www.flickr.com/photos/55720630@N06/7099857393/ Hiace - www.flickr.com/photos/46637666@N07/6689775637/

Wikipedia RUC Landrover entry - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Rover_Tangi