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OH I LOVE Kay Nielsen =)

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What art is this ?? :o

Wonderful! Thank you so much for sharing, and for titling each image so completely. That takes a lot of time, I know....

Nancy Bavin ? - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/16721709

"Miss Nancy Bavin was in orange and white printed chiffon with a natural-toned baku hat. ... "

Whoever it is, she looks fabulous!

beachcomber australia This is not as clear as the others, if only they images were in colour! It does say she was in a 'printed chiffon' dress, and this one doesn't appear to be printed. We were thinking this one might be her: bit.ly/LDg8Nl

Deetje Andriesse you look terrific. I googled the name to find several references in the fashion and social pages of 1930s Sydney. Somewhere out there there will be relatives and friends who will love to see this photo.

beachcomber australia Yes, there are rather a lot aren't there? If this is her, it is of special significance because it is such an early portrait. The other numerous (but poor quality) photos that appear in the society pages are from the mid-late 30's. I think these newspaper articles on Deetje Andriesse are of particular interest -

In 1935 she was photographed by Harold Cazneaux. The photo appeared in the February issue of The Home magazine - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/55537947

In April 1937 she was photographed at work in her new studio in the Victoria Arcade (somebody tell agrippinamaior!). She had just returned from Europe, where she had studied leather-work for 2 years - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/17363797

In 1938 Thea Proctor painted her portrait - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/17538248, which was exhibited at the Macquarie Galleries in November - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/17540382

Also, it would appear she immigrated to Australia in 1922 with her parents and a brother - mariners.records.nsw.gov.au/1922/09/032hou.htm

beachcomber australia pellethepoet She does look lovely. She was known in Sydney's art circles, but as you say pellethepoet, there are no earlier images of her except this, which is not very clear: nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16808372

This one, nla.gov.au/nla.news-article40994836, is clear, but it doesn't look much like her. The description we included above from the newspaper report of the JAVA event seems similar to this woman's clothing, however, it is difficult to say for sure that it is her.

Read more about Mary Agnes Chase here - blog.photography.si.edu/2009/03/08/formidable/

Famous women with names U, V, X, & Y: Usula B. Marvin, geologist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center forum.wgbh.org/lecture/life-our-home-turf-scanning-solar-... Vita Sackville-West, author, gardener,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vita_Sackville-West Victoria Regina, queen Vera Brittain, author, pacifist en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Brittain Valentina Tereshkova - Russian cosmonaut en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Tereshkova (lots of Valentinas en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina) Xenia Desni, Ukranian, silent film star Yoko Ono, Japanese artist Unity Mitford, Fascist sypathizer and friend of Hitler en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_Mitford

More about Mary Agnes Chase: Botanist Mary Agnes Meara Chase was born April 20, 1869, in Illinois. Her father Martin Meara, an Irish railroad worker, was hung as a murderer when Mary Agnes was a toddler. After a elementary education in Chicago, Mary Agnes quit school to work as a newspaper typesetter, a proofreader, even as a meat inspector. She was briefly married, then widowed, at 19. She had always been artistic, and interested in plants; a minister who was also a botanist hired Mary Agnes to draw specimens of mosses he had collected. Some of her illustrations were selected for publication in scientific journals. In 1903, she took a Washington-based job as an illustrator for the US Department of Agriculture. She would eventually become a senior botanist at the Smithsonian, and one of the world's experts on grasses of North America. She went on several collecting expeditions to Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, and Puerto Rico (her personal collection was donated to the Smithsonian and the National Herbarium). Her strongly feminist politics led her to activism that endangered her government employment, including jail time and forced feedings during a hunger strike for suffrage. Here's a local history account mentioning her father's lynching, for the murder of his son, the older brother of Mary Agnes Meara: www.rootsweb.com/~ilicgs/monthly/meara2.htm

An inspiring story, of success against the odds.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Systematic Botany (not for "pretty flower images"), and we'd love to have this added to the group!