contralto

Louise Homer: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Homer The baby is apparently Helen Joy Homer (1915-1946), later the first Mrs. William Main Doerflinger, the youngest of the six Homer children. She was always called Joy, but one of her wedding announcements calls her "Miss Helen Joy," and when her older sister Louise married in 1921, the youngest sisters Hester Makepeace Homer and Helen Joy Homer are listed as her flower girls. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60710F83A5B11728... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Homer Joy Homer had an eventful short life: she was a medical relief worker in China, wrote a memoir of her harrowing journey on foot (Dawn Watch in China), edited Woody Guthrie's Bound for Glory, worked for the OSS in New Delhi during WWII; while in India, she was hurt in a car accident, and she eventually died from her injuries. She's buried in New York: www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nywarren/cemeteries/bolton.htm

More Bain/LOC photos of Madame Louise Homer:

I always love learning about fearless women throughout history. Thanks for the postings.

wonderful in one word !

pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) I'm just reading Joy Homer's book and she was a newspaper reporter in China and was apparently financed by some newspaper / media, but also offered reports to US papers as a freelancer. She didn't intent to write a book at first. She also says she was educated at Smith College, and that she was in London before and worked with "slum dwellers" there (she mentions this comparing them with the Chinese coolis). Do you have more information about her?

How she sounded in 1917 -
youtu.be/XX4fEC_zwck?si=qtmFf_LKTsGcYpAe&t=55

ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq Gorgeous start to the day for us all, thank you! Singing from 108 years ago...

How she looked in 1916 (she was 6' 2" evidently!) -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0pVsE4E8NM

ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq That is an impressive height for back then. And it looks as if she was wildly popular! Surprised that Pathé don't know where that was...
[they need researchers like us]

National Library of Ireland on The Commons We'll work it out; a challenge for Flickroonies.

Wikipedia says:
Ernestine Schumann-Heink (15 June 1861 - 17 November 1936) was a well-known operatic contralto, noted for the great control, tone, beauty, and wide range of her singing. Link follows:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schumann-Heink

Thanks! We'll add her first name to the source data and reload the description.

Two of Ernestine Schumann-Heink's children were daughters,
Charlotte Heink was born ~1884
Marie Theresa Schumann was born ~1896

The boy looks compatible with her youngest son, born 12 Dec 1898 in New York.
- www.findagrave.com/memorial/195890346/george_washington_s...

The daughter here might be Marie Theresa (Mizzi).
- www.findagrave.com/memorial/111173868/marie_therese_fox

The older daughter, Charlotte can be seen with Marie in one of the photos at
- www.findagrave.com/memorial/239680129/charlotte_greif

To me, the daughter in this picture is a better match to Marie than Charlotte. Marie was first married in 1915.
See www.newspapers.com/article/lancaster-new-era-marriage-of-...
So this picture is probably no later than 1915.

Aside 1: According to www.balboaparkhistory.net/glimpses/scheink.htm
"In February 1906 she returned to Germany where she succeeded in getting six of her eight children out of the country. August, a merchant seaman, and Charlotte, the wife of Doctor Grief [Greif] in Leipzig, remained behind. According to German law, Schumann-Heink, by marrying a foreigner, had forfeited her property in Germany. Also, her boys were required to serve in the army before they could leave the country. The German courts decided the boys and daughter Marie could accompany her to America and that she could retain one-third of the money in Germany as she, rather than her deceased husband, had earned it. Her home in Germany was confiscated, and she had to buy it back."

Aside 2: According to www.balboaparkhistory.net/glimpses/scheink.htm
"While she was singing in the 1914 Bayreuth Festival, World War I began. She ordered her chauffeur to put an American flag in front of her automobile. The flag placated officials looking for enemy agents and enabled her to reach the American consul at Coburg. After a roundabout route which took her to Copenhagen, she, her son George Washington, her daughter Marie, and her accompanist, Mrs. Katherine Hoffman, finally sailed for America on a Holland-American liner out of Rotterdam."