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Bain/LOC photo of Eleanor Wilson, released to press when her engagement was announced:

Woodrow Wilson had a daughter Eleanor. Image # 3244338 [ www.gettyimages.com/Search/Search.aspx?contractUrl=1&... ] at Getty Images shows her and I think it's the same woman. Similar picture at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c31915 She married William Gibbs McAdoo in the White House on May 7, 1914. See hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.15800 hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b36415 suggests that the young woman looking at her behind the man in foreground) is her sister, Jessie

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Date inscribed on the negative (in reverse) appears to be from 1913, which would make this a few months after Woodrow Wilson assumed the Presidency on March 4, 1913. (View large.) William Gibbs McAdoo, Wilson's Secretary of the Treasury, was widowed in 1912. In 1913 he began courting Eleanor, Wilson's youngest daughter, who accepted his proposal, even though at 50 he was 27 years older than she. Woodrow Wilson was not thrilled by the idea, but did not prevent the marriage. McAdoo and Eleanor were divorced in 1934.

This is Miss Marjorie Brown (1892-1988) of Atlanta.

Marjorie was a daughter of First Lady Ellen Wilson's cousin, Colonel Edward T. Brown of Atlanta. She had two brothers, Edward M. and Henry W. Brown. [1] [2]   Growing up in Georgia, Marjorie was a long-time childhood friend of Jessie and Eleanor Wilson, and she later shared her college years with Jessie in Princeton.

Marjorie attended Miss Jessie Wilson as one of five bridesmaids at her White House wedding to Francis B. Sayre in November, 1913, and she was also a special guest at the wedding of Eleanor Wilson, six months later at the White House. [3] [4]   A portrait of Marjorie Brown appeared in The Atlanta Constitution on November 9, 1913. (shown below)

Marjorie married Benjamin M. King in Washington, DC, in December, 1920. Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of the president, was maid of honor, and former First Lady Edith Wilson was among the guests. [5]

Benjamin King had been engaged to Eleanor Wilson. He was the manager of a lumber camp near Madera, Mexico when Eleanor met him while traveling with friends in 1913. The President and Mrs. Wilson liked King and approved of the engagement. However, Eleanor broke the engagement when she met William McAdoo later in 1913. Wilson and King remained friends, and after Benjamin and Marjorie married they would visit the Wilson’s. [6]

 
"Miss Marjorie Brown" by Meade

 

Simple, elegant, and there is something about those beautiful eyes.

A Timeless Treasure, for sure!