governorsisland

34 photos and 1 illustration tagged governorsisland, from 5 members of Flickr Commons.

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pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:
Mrs. Finley Johnson Shepard = Helen Miller Gould Shepard (1868-1938); she's appeared in the LOC uploads before. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Miller_Gould Madge Luella Shepard (b. 1897) and Marjorie Burr Shepard (1894-1982) are her nieces, the daughters of Louis Jennings Shepard and Mattie Lloyd. wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2... Madge married Vladimir Petersen in 1926. Marjorie married Philip Maynard Morgan in 1920.
swanq said:
Several of these people appear on a page of photos of the 1915 Governors Island Garden Party in the New-York tribune., June 06, 1915, [Page 3, Image 49] chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1915-06-06/ed-... Note that Madge and Marjorie only have a single "p" in their last name.
swanq said:
NYT pictorial section of June 6, 1915, page 8 memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/np_item.pl?collection=sgproto&... or memory.loc.gov/service/sgp/sgpnyt/1915/191506/19150606/00... has a picture of the Shepard girls and their aunt captioned as being at the Governors Island Garden Party

evanesca101 said:
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called 1910s Fashion, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Wystan said:
Posed on the occasion of the annual lawn party on Governors Island in New York harbor, sponsored by the Army Relief Society, on May 25, 1911. General Grant, son of former President Ulysses S. Grant, was commanding officer at the Governors Island military installation until his death from cancer in April, 1912.

Richard Norton said:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governors_Island
swanq said:
Statue of Liberty is visible near the plane. So this is looking west. See www.airfields-freeman.com/NY/Airfields_NY_NY_Brooklyn.htm for information on the use of Governor's Island as an airfield.
Greg said:
Thanks, All, full name for Gov's Island to be added here and elsewhere.