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Major Butt has an interesting history. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Butt

I wonder who they cut out of the image, top left?...

Taft Family en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft_family Here is article about their mother: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Taft it identifies his only sister as being: Frances Louise "Fanny" Taft (Edwards), (1866-1950). She married San Diego surgeon William A. Edwards . She lived to be 84 and here is her obit: select.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=FB0B1EFC3D59157B93... Dr. Edwards' obit is below, unfortunately it says that he left behind just his widow, so these two lovely children pre-deceased their parents. select.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=FA0A13F63C5516738D...

"Fanny"? Butt? I sense a trend here.

If I had to guess, I'd say it was actually Butt's sister, by the wording.

Oliver Gould Jennings was on the boards of Bethlehem Steel, United States Industrial Alcohol Company, McKesson & Robbins, Inc., Kingsport Press, Signature Company, National Fuel Gas Company, and Grocery Store Products, Inc. (Oliver Jennings, Capitalist, Dead. New York Times, Oct. 14, 1936.)

I started a biography for him in Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Gould_Jennings

Mrs. Gertrude Sheldon Sands, widow of Samuel Stevens Sands III, married Richard Whitney on May 27, 1916, in New York City. [1] Samuel Stevens Sands III, a son of Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, Sr., was killed in an automobile accident in West Hampton, NY on July 2, 1913. They had been married less than three years (October 18, 1910). [2]   [The date "7/3/13" is written on the above negative – perhaps a publication date.] Richard Whitney (1888–1974) was an American financier. Whitney was president of the New York Stock Exchange 1930–1935, and a convicted embezzler.

"On April 12, 1938, six thousand people turned up at Grand Central Station to watch as a scion of the Wall Street Establishment was escorted in handcuffs by armed guards onto a train that delivered him to prison." [3]

Mrs. Gertrude Sheldon Sands Whitney, who once summered on a 400 acre estate in the Berkshires,[4] then moved into a farmhouse in Far Hills, New Jersey.  

Bewitching - probably breathtaking with her hair down!

Pixel Wrangler: Thanks for the information and for spotting the date (dates on the negatives can be mysterious but likely do indicate when the photo was used). We'll add information to the description when we update it.

This would be in 1913 when her first husband died. I added her to Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Sheldon_Sands

Wow!