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Homer Family This is a series of portraits of the family of composer Sidney Homer (1864-1953) and his wife contralto Louise Dilworth Homer née Beatty (1871-1947). Sidney Homer composed many of his songs with the voice of his famous wife in mind. Among his most famous songs are "A Banjo Song" (Weeden), "Requiem" (Stevenson), "Casey at the Bat" (Thayer), and "The House that Jack Built" ("Mother Goose.") Sidney was Louise's music theory teacher in Boston, MA.  After their marriage in 1895, they went to Europe for further voice coaching. Louise Homer's European debut in 1898 was in Vichy, as Leonora in La Favorita, and in 1900 she made her American opera debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City singing Amneris in Verdi's Aida.  She sang at the Met for 19 consecutive seasons, often singing opposite such acclaimed singers as Enrico Caruso, Geraldine Farrar, and Ernestine Schumann-Heink. She made many phonographic recordings with Victor Co.  Composer Samuel Barber was her nephew, and Louise performed several of his songs.  In 1923 and 1924 she was listed as one of the 12 greatest living women by the National League of Women Voters.[1] They had six children, Louise Homer, Jr. (1896-1970) (Louise Homer Stires), son Sidney Homer, Jr. (1902-1983), twin daughters Anne Marie Homer (1907-1995) (Anne Homer Doerflinger) and Katharine Homer (1907-1997) ("Kay", Katharine Homer Fryer); and daughters Hester Makepeace Homer (1911-1967) ("Miss Happy", Hester Homer Henry) and Helen Joy Homer (1915-1946) ("Joy", Joy Homer Doerflinger) There are currently 34 photographs of the Homer family in the Bain Collection on Flickr.  You can view them all here.   They were first identified by Art Siegel, B-59, pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity), Wystan, swanq, and Richard Norton.

She either has eggs or is going in to gather eggs, given the way her apron is tucked in. This is a traditional way of gathering eggs-- the fabric of the apron acts as a hammock to cushion the eggs before they are packaged for storage or use in the kitchen.

What I like is the Chicken posing for its portrait.

great image

Grande!!!!

A very good patthern thank very much!

I find these school photos of the early 1950s fascinating. I was at school a decade later and our hairstyles and clothes were the same.

It looks so much like my 2nd class in 1961, I can put names to about 90% of those faces.

I have no idea Why that sign says Cook's Hill because it is NOT Cooks Hill. The photographer must have forgot to change it from being at Cook's Hill before going to Boolaroo. That class was at Boolaroo Public School, NSW. I know all of those kids and I can still name most of them now, over 60 years later.