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Daughter of the Speaker of the House (doesn't say if that's Federal or State). Was engaged to James M Thomson of New Orleans in June 1915. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9404EFDA1539E333A...

Everything looks so shiny and high-tech. Ms. Clark looks as satisfied as anyone being photographed with a new Blackberry, iPhone, or Android a century later.

She was the daughter of Champ Clark,(1850 – 1921), Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1911 to 1919, and an unsuccessful candidate for nomination to be the Democratic Partly candidate in the Presidential Election of 1912. Clark story shared at banquet -- Article from the Bowling Green Times about Genevieve Clark Thomson's story, as recounted by her nephew. The great tragedy of her life was the loss of her three year old son, Little Champ. When his birthday came around, she remembered him by delivering ice cream to children in the hospital. She was also a Suffragette, she ran for Congress, wrote a political column, and was known for her fashion sense, inspiring a hairstyle known as "the Genevieve Curl."

Some Bain trivia: The negative number etched here is 2680-3. You will notice that Miss Clark is sitting at the same desk, using the same telephone as that which sits on the desk of Alben Barkley, adjacent in this photostream, and which also has the consecutive negative number 2680-2: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3294674193/

Lovely photograph and portrait!

I love those phones.

"...member of the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate from Paducah, Kentucky, majority leader of the Senate, and the 35th Vice President of the United States." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alben_W._Barkley

At the trivial level, the negative number etched here is 2680-2. You will notice that Alben Barkley is sitting at the same desk upon which sits the same telephone as that used by Miss Genevieve Clark, adjacent in this photostream, and which also has the consecutive negative number 2680-3: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3295498512/

He coined "veep" as a nickname for "vice president."

the reversed writing upper left says Cong Barkley so this would be pre-senate

maybe www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/497.html

The caption on the photo itself says "Brannick" not "Bannick" as it says on the page caption. Still no luck finding out who he was, though.

Possibly Eddie Brannick, who appears to have been with the Giants (first in New York, then in San Francisco) from 1905 to 1971. See www.thedeadballera.com/Obits/Brannick.Eddie.Obit.html and page 100 of The Giants Encyclopedia [ISBN:1582616930] at books.google.com/books?id=VCEFY4nqa1sC&pg=PA100&l...

The Eddie Brannick swang found is probably the same guy. The surname is not at all common.

probable.. very interest.