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Mrs. William Brown Meloney, chairman of the Marie Curie Radium Fund Committee, s. New-York tribune., April 01, 1921, Page 3, col. 2, "Harding to Present Radium" chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1921-04-01/ed-... and caption of photo of Marie Curie in the Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., February 19, 1921, Image 12 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86058226/1921-02-19/ed-... She accompanied Marie Curie from France, s. photo in The Bismarck tribune., May 18, 1921, Image 1 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042243/1921-05-18/ed-... (and caption of photo of Mrs. Robert G. Mead in The New York herald., May 01, 1921, SECTION THREE, Page 2, Image 36 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045774/1921-05-01/ed-...) Marie Curie arrived on the Olympic on May 11, 1921, s. The evening world., May 11, 1921, Wall Street Final Edition, Image 1, col. 5 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1921-05-11/ed-...

"Marie Mattingly Meloney (1878–1943), who used Mrs. William B. Meloney as her professional and social name, was "one of the leading woman journalists of the United States", a magazine editor and a socialite who in the 1920s organized a fund drive to buy radium for Marie Curie and began a movement for better housing. In the 1930s she was a friend and confidante of Eleanor Roosevelt. She was nicknamed Missy." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Mattingly_Meloney

This photo was likely taken on April 20, 1921, s. New-York tribune., April 21, 1921, Page 21, col. 5: "Another traveler on the Olympic was Mrs. William Brown Meloney, magazine editor and writer, who is to visit Mme. Curie, French scientist, and bring her to this country." chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1921-04-21/ed-... She sailed together with Fritz Kreisler, s. photos of him nearby.

Such interesting details discovered on this one! We will update the record.

This photo or very similar ones were published in several newspapers, e.g.,
Amarillo Daily News., June 12, 1921, PICTURE PRESS GRAVURE SECTION, page 22
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042551/1921-06-12/ed-...
The [New Orleans] Herald., June 09, 1921, Image 12
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064020/1921-06-09/ed-...

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Thanks, swanq, we can add bio info here and elsewhere.

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The Brattleboro Daily Reformer., May 11, 1921, Page 3, column 2 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86071593/1921-05-11/ed-... indicates that Madame Curie and her daughters arrived in New York on the Olympic on May 11, 1921.

Meloney see www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/46264854702/