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St. Cyr Party -- Bar Harbor: Edw. Pendelton, Mary and Marcel, J.H.E. St. Cyr, Rob't. Swem (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Cynthia Wenslow said:
    Jean Harold Edward St. Cyr was involved in a scandal alleging he was merely posing as a member of a wealthy French family, but was, in fact from Texas.
  • Cynthia Wenslow said:
    With the following citation, I would imagine this photo is from 1914. Special to The New York Times. April 28, 1915, Section , Page 13, PHILADELPHIA, April 27. -- Jean H. E. Saint Cyr, whose pink silk sweater and sky-blue shirts attracted much attention in Bar Harbor last Summer,
  • Wystan said:
    So, was he found to be really a St. Cyr, or was he truly insincere?
  • Janet Lindenmuth said:
    According to this newspaper article news.google.com/newspapers?id=OQAdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IpsEA... St Cyr died in 1967 in La Jolla California, still claiming to be a French aristocrat. However, he left money in his will to Hugh Thompson of Waco, Texas who in 1916 told the New York Times St. Cyr was not his brother Jack. select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10C1EF6355C1373...

Colin Wyatt SLNSW_FL9723806

from State Library of New South Wales

  • 3 older comments, and then…
  • Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies said:
    "With his marriage on the rocks and fearing his wife was having an affair, ex-champion skier Colin Wyatt decided to cope the only way he could think of.

    He began stealing rare butterflies.

    What unfolded over the following months in the late 1940s would become a bizarre search spanning multiple museums and crossing international waters.

    It would also involve thousands upon thousands of tiny flying insects.

    Hundreds of 'the best specimens' taken from museums across Australia
    The first sign of trouble came in early 1947 — some 825 specimens of rare Australian butterflies had disappeared from the Melbourne Museum's George Lyell collection.

    When Melbourne raised the alarm, other museums checked their own collections ... "
    More - www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-02/history-butterfly-theft-au...
    And - science.anu.edu.au/news-events/news/museum-heist-70-years...
  • Jazz Guy said:
    Lower left hand corner... I think that is a blotter to dry off signatures on documents. What year did ball point pens replace quill pens? There's a plot twist in a movie titled "Angel Heart" that involves this.
  • Jazz Guy said:
    And now the big question... Is the bottle of gin in the drawer on his left or on his right? :-)
  • State Library of New South Wales said:
    I read 'The Butterfly Thief' by Walter Marsh over the weekend and saw the image was in the Library collections. Really amazing that he was able to get them all over to the UK as well..
  • Narelle Jarvis said:
    What a story! So where was this picture taken and what is he doing with the photographs?

Grand Larceny vs. Petty Larceny; Or, Political Justice Exemplified

from Cornell University Library

  • ROBERT HUFFSTUTTER said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called ACADEMIC ASSIGNMENTS, and we'd love to have this added to the group! SPEAKING OF SCANDALS, I wonder how the laptop spy cameras will end up in a court of law? I am sure there are some paranoid administrators pacing about at this time....thus, added to a gallery.