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There was a Helen Freeman (1886-1960) who was an American actress; this could be her, but the actress is described as having "radiant blonde hair" in Beatrice Wood's autobiography I Shock Myself, and the photo of that Freeman included in that book (p. 16) isn't necessarily a match to this one. So I'd hesitate to make the connection for certain--though the age is about right, and this certainly looks like an actress's portrait.

Very beautiful...

digital, eat your heart out. glass neg's are where it's at.

She looks ethnic with the big brown eyes. She could be Jewish.

This is likely the stage, and sometime screen actress, Helen Freeman, daughter of Benjamin N. Freeman. [1] I'm locked-out from viewing page16 of Shock Myself, as referenced above by pennylrichardsca, so I can't read the reference of her "radiant blonde hair" or see the photo. That said, photos that I have seen of Ms. Freeman appear to match this LOC photograph, including this photograph in The New York Times on December 14, 1913. And this, from American Pictorial magazine, 1924. I didn't locate any authoritative, proper biographies of Helen Freeman, but there is a significant body of letters, theatrical performances, stories and books that bring-to-life her love of art, and literature, with extensive references to the frequent trips she took abroad with her lifelong friends. Collections of letters illuminating Helen Freeman are in proper collections around the world, including the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. The New York Times published an interesting theatrical biographical review of her on July 20, 1919. Helen Freeman secretly married the American writer, Edwin Corle (1906-1956), in Ensenada, Mexico in 1932. She didn't reveal her marriage until more than a year later, in December, 1933. References to her marriage are scant. Her lifetime friend, Helen Keller, closed a 3-page letter dated November 16, 1933, with: "With every good wish to the husband whom I have not had the pleasure of meeting, but whose name smiles out of your letter." — Helen Keller Her long-time friend Beatrice Wood recalled, "Helen married the (younger) writer Edwin Corle and became his "muse" for many years until he left her for a younger woman." ["Beatrice Wood: ...", Dissertation of Helen Dixon Hennessey, pp 91]   Exactly when Edwin Corle left Helen is not clear, however Aldous Huxley wrote a letter of introduction for them to T.S. Eliot in 1938:

To T. S. Eliot July 12, 1938 My dear Tom: I have given two friends of ours a letter of introduction to you. They are Edwin Corle, who is a promising young novelist, and his wife, Helen Freeman, the actress. I think you will find them a very pleasant and intelligent couple ... Ever yours affectionately, Aldous H.

I've not found any biographies of Edwin Corle that mention his marriage to Helen Freeman. The biographies do mention, however, Corle's marriage to Jean Armstrong in 1944 – so perhaps their marriage lasted close to ten years.

CWGC has this: FREEMAN, DOUGLAS STEPHEN Rank: Lieutenant Date of Death: 03/05/1915 Age: 39 Regiment/Service: Australian Infantry, A.I.F. 15th Bn. Panel Reference 33. Memorial LONE PINE MEMORIAL Additional Information: Son of William and Lucy Rose Freeman, of "Clodagh," Beresford Rd., Rose Bay, New South Wales. Native of Marrickville, New South Wales.

First World War Embarkation Roll - Douglas Stephen Freeman Rank: 2nd Lieutenant Roll title: 15 Infantry Battalion (December 1914) Conflict: First World War, 1914-1918 Date of embarkation: 22 December 1914 Place of embarkation: Melbourne Ship embarked on: HMAT Ceramic Ship number: A40 The digitised record states that he was a mining manager whose residence was P.O., Bundaberg, Queensland; he was Church of England and his father was his next of kin

SOURCE: alh-research.tripod.com/gallipoli_album/index.album/dougl... Captain Douglas Stephen FREEMAN, a 38 year old Mining manager from Bundaberg, Queensland. He enlisted on 29 September 1914 and was allotted to the 15th Battalion, C Company which embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A40 Ceramic on 22 December 1914. Subsequently FREEMAN was Killed in Action, 3 May 1915. Sydney Mail, 26 May 1915, p. 8. The photograph is of Captain Douglas Stephen FREEMAN in the uniform of an 4th Australian Infantry Regiment officer and prior to the Great War, was a Lieutenant in this Regiment. In addition FREEMAN was a Second Lieutenant with the 4th Squadron, 3rd Australian Light Horse Regiment from 6 September 1909 until transferring to the 4th Australian Infantry Regiment. See here for an extensive write-up about Douglas including diary entries by himself and others around him at the time of his death.

Zaphod_B_42 I followed the hyperlink - it was hard reading that with the image of this man in my head. An astonishing individual both in peace and war.

Help piece together the Life Stories of more than 8 million men and women who made a contribution during the First World War at www.livesofthefirstworldwar.org/

August, 1913: Before the Suffragette Caravan left New York for Boston, pulled by a balky horse that the ladies had named "Asquith," (after the British prime minister, who also proved balky on the woman suffrage question) the participants (three British suffragettes and an American Salvation Army colonel -- with tambourine) released several homing pigeons, whose flight home to Boston was supposed to precede and herald their own arrival in that city. Here is a contemporary newspaper clipping about the event: www.elizabethfreeman.org/PDF/suffrage/bostonPigeons_big.pdf

Wystan: Thanks for linking to the additional information on this event. Thanks to other images in the Prints and Photographs Division's collections and information provided here in Flickr, we will be able to add the identities of the ladies in the photo, from L to R: Ida Craft, Elsie McKenzie, Vera Wentworth and Elisabeth Freeman.

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