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Boston Daily Globe, 18 March 1915: "AGAIN IN LOVE WITH JAPANESE: Gertrude Boyle's Family Call Her Insane. Married Eight Years Ago to Kanno, She Now Prefers Ishigaki. The family of Gertrude A. Boyle, sculptress, was willing to call it uncon ventionality when eight years ago she married Takeshi Kanno, a Japanese writer." One more of them coming up: www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2005016904/resource/

There's a small collection of papers related to Gertrude Farquharson Boyle Kanno (1878-1937) at the California Historical Society: www.oac.cdlib.org/search?style=oac4;Institution=Californi... She sculpted busts of Christy Mathewson, John Muir, Henry Cowell, Joaquin Miller, Margaret Sanger, and others.

I started a Wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Farquharson_Boyle_Kanno

trialsanderrors and pennylrichardsca: Thanks for providing us with full name of "wife." We'll add this info. to the description next time we update.

She would have been 38 in 1914. It looks like she is posing here as the ghost of someone's departed loved one, while Kanno depicts a mourner, bereft and crumpled at the grave.

I used to work in the shop next door when it was a magazine stall around 1972...think it became the Electric shop a few years later....I moved around the corner to W. Robinsons Book Shop for around 7 years.....would be nice to see some of the old staff there like Billy, Mr Moore, Mr Rennie & Audrey (She was the grand Daughter of Stan Laurel ) plus a few more who's names iv forgot through time...I know Jimmy Forsythe took a few...

Bio of Frank "Bert" Harriman www.hsgct.org/industry.htm

Is the name on the boat with it in the "shed" "Princess?"

Boat in the shed has "Princess Boston" written on it.