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The man's name is Robert Archer Bowlby. Here's an ad for their appearance in Milwaukee in March 1914 news.google.com/newspapers?id=xo0VAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JgoEA...

LOC: Bowlby, not Bowley.

Thanks j3net and Wystan, for catching the misspelling in our caption. We'll make the correction the next time we update the record.

Dancer. NYT of Nov 12, 1911 describes her as a seventeen year-old just arrived from La Scala.
query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50F12FC355517738...

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She was born in 1896 in Milano and died on April 30, 1940 in Milano. She was the "première danseuse" of the NY Metropolitan Opera from 1914 to 1930 and ballet mistress from 1919 to 1935 (according to fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosina_Galli_%28danseuse%29) See also books.google.ch/books?id=Tm-AAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT294&dq... news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1787&dat=19300619&... "My Life as a Ballet-Dancer" by Rosina Galli (www.unz.org/Pub/Forum-1919jul-00011) In broadway.cas.sc.edu/content/maria-gambarelli she is described as "cruel".

In March 1916, a series of concerts, whose purpose was to raise funds for the establishing of an Italian theatre in NY, was given in the Waldorf. Rosina Galli and Giuseppe Bonfiglio gave a group of dances (NYT, March 19, 1916, query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FB0811F63E591A...)

See also www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/7753236584/

he looks very Scottish, a little like my Glaswegian grandfather. she is so beautiful.

beautiful portrait

emocionante a fotografia. É de extrema importancia um dia a gente se casar, experiencia única.