carnegie

Taken last June 2009.

I love the expressions on the faces of people in these old photos. It seems the photographer always captures a moment of reality. In this one there is a sense of urgency; both ladies appear to be hurried.

Widow of William Thaw (1818-1889). According to this site: Following the death of Eliza Burd Blair Thaw (1863), William married Mary Sibbet Copley, the daughter of Josiah Copley (who was one of the founders of Kittanning and at one time the editor of the Pittsburgh Dispatch). So this is presumably Mary Sibbet (Copley) Thaw. Her obituary is on an archived Time Magazine from 17 June 1929: Died. Mrs. Mary Sibbet Copley Thaw, 90, of Pittsburgh, widow of the late steelman William Thaw, philanthropist, charity worker, mother of Harry K. Thaw, who, in 1906, killed Architect Stanford White; at "Oak Lawn," Pittsburgh. A daughter is Countess de Perigny (Margaret Carnegie Thaw).

hilarious.

I wrote a biography of her for Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sibbet_Copley en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Copley_Thaw

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_carnegie

Is that his brother just behind him to the right?

Carnegie in 1913 was meeting with a British delegation planning to celebrate a century of peaceful relations between the U S and Britain, and the U S and Canada: In 1910, Carnegie's gift of ten million dollars had established the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a think tank headquartered in New York City, now with branches in The Hague and in Moscow.