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[Unidentified children & women] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• swanq said:

  The [New York] Sun., July 28, 1918, Section 4 Pictorial Magazine, Image 32, bottom left. chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030431/1918-07-28/ed-... has a similar picture that looks to have the same children and the ice cream cones. It was taken at the "recent Islip Horse Show." Names are given but it's a little hard to figure out which names belong to the children on the wall and which to the older women. Hollins, Belmont, Potts, and Morgan families are represented. The sun., July 21, 1918, Section 7, Page 6 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030431/1918-07-21/ed-... indicates that the show was held on July 20, 1918.

• Skip Goforth said:

  Sweet! Bless their hearts!

• swanq said:

  I think I have the Hollins family sorted out. Three of the children on the wall appear to be grandchildren of Harry Bowly Hollins (1854-1938)
  
  My conclusions: At left is Bobby (Robert) with cousin Gerald next to him. Gerald's sister Faith comes next. Bobby's older sister, Hope, is in a nearby photo on her pony Pebbles.
  
  Various snippets of evidence below.
  
  Social Register from 1919 shows most of the family to be in Islip, Long Island, for summers.
  books.google.com/books?id=9RQJAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA134&l...
  
  Henry (Harry) Bowly Hollins 1854-1938 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._B._Hollins
  Wife: Evelina Merseole Knapp
  
  Children:
  - H.B. Hollins, Jr. 1882-1958 Harvard graduate 1904, married 1904
  * books.google.com/books?id=YFsjAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1091&... has dates for marriage/children
  - Wife: Lilias Livingston, born 1882
  * books.google.com/books?id=iNIUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1346&...
  — daughter Lilias, born 1905
  — daughter Evelina, born 1906
  — daughter Hope, born 1907
  — son Harry Bowly, born 1909 www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hollins-170
  — daughter Jean, born 1910
  — son Robert (Bobby) Livingston, born 1912
  
  - John K. Hollins (Jack) 1886- Harvard graduate 1910
  
  - Gerald Vanderbilt Hollins 1886-1955
  - Wife: Virgina Kobbe — married 18 November 1909
  * fultonhistory.com/Newspaper4/Sayville%20NY%20Suffolk%20Co...
  * gw.geneanet.org/ukobbe?lang=en&p=gerald&n=vanderb....
  — daughter Faith, born 1914, married Arthur W. Little, Jr. in 1934
  * www.newspapers.com/newspage/59978029/
  * www.myheritage.com/names/faith_hollins
  * www.newspapers.com/clip/2046337/little_hollins_engagment/
  — son Gerald Vanderbilt married Betty Armour in 1939
  * archives.chicagotribune.com/1939/06/04/page/21/article/be...
  — son John K (Jack)
  
  - McKim Hollins 1888 (or 1892) -1953
  * played golf at Harvard in 1910 — query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E02E0DA1239E433A...
  
  - Marion Hollins 1892-1944 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Hollins
  See also and

• swanq said:

  See Jean Hollins at same event:

• swanq said:

  The caption for the similar photo in the New York Sun of July 28, 1918 lists Anita and Polly Potts www.archives.com/1940-census/polly-potts-ny-62626732 suggests that Polly would be the youngster second from the right on the wall. Anita was the name of Polly's mother, but I suspect the women in the picture are older sisters, given no "Mrs." in the captions. A 1920 Social Register books.google.com/books?id=ek5IAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA563&l... indicates an Islip residence for Mrs. Rockhill B Potts, the former Anita Tone. New York Evening Post of April 16, 1930 fultonhistory.com/newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20P... indicates that Mrs. Rockhill Brevoort Potts did have a daughter called Anita, whose engagement she was announcing. Polly's engagement was announced in the NYT of April 25, 1941 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E02E0DB1E3DE33BB...