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A Miss Leila Harrison of Hartford, Conn., is mentioned in this Hartford Courant article which is sadly behind a paywall: JUNIOR PROM ENDS TRINITY GAIETIES BALL AND SEASON BOTH CALLED THE BEST YET Hall Prettily Decorated With Lights and Colors DANCING LASTS NEARLY UNTIL SUNRISE The Hartford Courant (1887-1922) - Hartford, Conn. Date:Feb 13, 1912

She is mentioned in the Washington (and some New York) papers of the period in the society columns, along with her mother Mrs. George F. E. Harrison, widow of a career military man. She made her debut in 1912, and married Geoffrey Keyes on 12/1/15, at West Point. She is pictured in the Utica New York Saturday Globe, described as a Washington beauty. fultonhistory.com/Process%20Small/Newspapers/Utica%20NY%2... Her husband retired as a Lt. General and held important commands during and after World War II. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Keyes She died in 1956 at the age of 60.

That's Mae Ella Nolan (1886-1973) of San Francisco, whose husband John Ignatius Nolan (1874-1822) was a labor leader and Congressman. After he died, she took over his seat in Congress. She was the first woman elected to Congress from California, first woman to chair a Congressional committee, first woman to win a special election for Congress, first widow to fill her husband's seat in Congress. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_Nolan en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_I._Nolan

Her entry in the Biographical Directory of Congress bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000125 This picture is probably in connection with her husband's election to Congress in 1913. She married him shortly after his election, according to them more detailed Congressional biography: womenincongress.house.gov/member-profiles/profile.html?in...

pennylrichardsca and artolog: thank you for the additional information on Mrs. Nolan. We will update the description data to include the full name.

Should be "K. F. Shah", as he appears several other times in the Bain Collection. I am having difficulty finding any non-Bain biographical sources on him, though.

Correct: should be Shah. From A Chinese student publication from 1914: He was a foreign minister from China. Earlier a student at Columbia University. Arrived in New York on his way to Washington DC, with his wife, five children and sixteen servants.

NYT of April 6, 1914 select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50712FE3F5A1273... "K. F. Shah, the first Minister to Washington of the new Chinese Republic, arrived yesterday on the HamburgAmerican liner Kaiserin Auguste Victoria with a retinue of eleven persons, besides his wife and four children."

He is Kai Fu Shah (Xia Xiefu), and had been China's Consul General in New York from 1903 to 1908. During that period, he was mentioned regularly in the New York newspapers. In 1914, he arrived in Washington, via New York, as the first envoy to the U.S. of the newly recognized Chinese Republic, and this seems to be the press photo opportunity of April 14, 1914 on the occasion (in Washington) of the presentation of his credentials as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chinese Legation, to the State Department. www.state.gov/s/cpr/91588.htm There are multiple photos from this event in the LOC"s Harris & Ewing collection: www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=kai%20fu%20shah This shot was taken by the Clinedinst Studio of Washington, D.C., a prominent studio so ubiquitous in its Federal Government portraits and subjects that it was sometimes referred to as the Court Photographer of Washington. 19thcenturybaltimore.wordpress.com/2010/07/06/barnett-m-c...

bior, dhelling01, swanq, and artolog: Thanks for providing us with correct information for Shah. We will correct our data next time we update.