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Helen Mettler (1910-1926); killed in an accidental fall at Taggart Canyon near Jackson Hole, Wyoming, age 16. She was the daughter of Helen Fleischmann and John Wyckoff Mettler; John W. Mettler (1878-1952) was president of the Interwoven Stocking Company. The family was vacationing in Wyoming at the time of Helen's death. Helen's gravesite: www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=16725467 Apparently Helen Mettler kept a diary during her family visits to Wyoming, and in the last entry wrote "God Bless Wyoming, and keep it wild." Thus young Miss Mettler is quoted often, in various discussions of Wyoming land management, etc., to this day. (Many of these quotations further say she died in 1925, but apparently that's only the date of the last diary entry.)

Her mother, Helen Fleischmann, was the daughter of Maximilian Fleischmann (1846-1890) and Johanna Mueller (?-1936). Max Fleischmann was a co-founder of the Fleischmann's Yeast Company (which eventually became Fleischmann's Co and was a major international company). The extended Fleischmann family owned a summer compound of great camps in the Catskills, where Helen Fleischmann spent her childhood summers. The community was named after the Fleischmann family after a gift of a park and baseball field by Max and Johanna's nephews, who owned the Cincinnati Reds. I now own the only building still standing in the original compound as an inn and retreat center, and it is in the process of being listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Pictures at spillian.com

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Sitting portraits, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

"Life is nothing if not a great adventure," said Helen Keller in her autobiography. What a brilliant woman to break through her disability to touch the world. Great reading.

the 1913 International Flower show related to these photos was held at the Grand central palace. Unfortunately the building was demolished and I can't find any record of the eagles. The International Flower Show, co-sponsored with the New York Florist’s Club, was the grandest of the shows produced by The Horticultural Society. It was held at Grand Central Palace from 1913 to 1953 and later at The New York Coliseum through 1970. www.hsny.org/about_history.html

I'm a little bit obsessed with ASM. Haha.

I also have to say that she is given way less credit than she should be. Where would Helen Keller have gotten without her? Exactly!

On the left, apparently Helen Victoria Crocker (1896-1966), daughter of banker William Henry Crocker and later married to Henry P. Russell.
Virginia Mitchell was named as a flower girl at the Red Cross Tea Garden at the International Flower Show in the Grand Central Palace in New York on March 16, 1917 in this article:
query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9903E5DD143AE4...
www.geni.com/people/Helen-Russell/6000000021719232623
A horticulture library in San Francisco is named after her:
www.sfbotanicalgarden.org/library/library-history.html

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