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Mr. and Mrs. J. Douglas Robinson were received by the Japanese emperor when they visited Tokyo in 1910, according to reports in the New York Times and elsewhere. Edith Kane may be the daughter of Tuxedo Club founder Grenville Kane (he had a daughter Edith born in 1884, married in 1911, so she'd be in the news during the right window of time).

Edith Kane was soon to become the wife of George Fisher Baker Jr.

hey, we just had a photo of George F. Baker, Jr. in this recent collection.

This photograph was probably taken at the Meadow Brook Field on June 14, 1913 on the occassion of the Newport Cup polo match between America and England. See comparison photograph of this high society event, including similar grandstand dressed with diagonal Stars and Stripes Flag in the background here: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3597340687/

Thanks to all for your comments! lifeasdaddy: It does appear quite likely these ladies are at the polo match in question. We will add to the record when we update. Good eye!

6-14-13 on the side

See www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3437653681/

The former Nina Floyd Crosby, daughter of Walter Floyd Crosby (d. 1915, age 59). She was the wife of a Louisiana senator, James Biddle Eustis (one S), from 1903 until he also died in 1915, age 44. Then in 1917 she married a Frenchman, Marie Charles Jean Melchior (1880-1950), the Marquis de Polignac: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Charles_Jean_Melchior_de_Poli...

Thanks for the information. We'll add it to the source data and reload the description.

This site says that James Biddle Eustis died in 1899 at age 65. bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000229

Hmm, looking closer: she seems to have been married in 1903 to a younger James Biddle Eustis (1870-1915, Harvard class of 1894), son of James Biddle Eustis the senator; this woman's husband was apparently not the senator. Just to make it more interesting, Nina Crosby and JBE had a son who was also called James Biddle Eustis.