socialite

on board the Mauretania!

LOC: Bain caption is is Ralph Pulitzer and Wife.

Nice ..

artolog, Thanks for the heads up on the mismatch between the two captions provided by Bain. (One comes from the caption cards and one from the negative or negative sleeve - and they often don't agree!) We will expand the title to add Mr. Pulitzer's wife and more details, such as her name and their location. Incidentally, this should be his first wife, Frederica Vanderbilt Webb, as he didn't marry his second wife until 1928 and this photo is earlier.

This may be Mrs. Arthur Carroll, [note spelling] 64 East Seventy-seventh Street, New York City.

Mrs. Annie Livingston Best, daughter of Mrs. Clermont Livingston Best, married Arthur Carroll, the elder son of General Howard Carroll and Mrs. Carroll of Carrollcliffe, Tarrytown, in September, 1910 in New York City. Arthur Carroll was a 1904 graduate of Columbia University.

Annie Livingston Best had previously married Elizur Yale Smith in November, 1907, however they divorced the following June and she resumed using her maiden name. Elizur Yale Smith spent some time in jail in Kingston, NY, in 1911, after defrauding hotels with bad checks.

Below is a photo of Arthur Carroll's boyhood home:

"Castle on the Hudson"      by Benjamin Haas


Mrs. Annie Carroll and Arthur divorced five years later, and she remarried, for the third time, W. Sackett Duell of Philadelphia, in January, 1920. —Compiled from The New York Times [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Photo appears to have been taken at Newport, R.I.

A Newport socialite named Miss Edith Mortimer married Count Mario di Zoppola, an Itaiian aviator, in 1919, at her parents' country home in Wheatley Hills. Her mother was Eleanor Roosevelt's aunt. The Count and Countess di Zoppola divorced at Reno in 1929. In 1937, Cole Porter was badly injured while riding at Edith di Zoppola's Oyster Bay estate. Miss Mortimer seems to be enjoying "chair skating"? A G. MacCulloch Miller was mentioned winning a "toboggan challenge plate" in a winter sports event at Tuxedo Park in 1913. (George MacCulloch Miller had a daughter Edith too, but she announced her engagement in 1902.)

Looks like a better way to "skate," with less risk of falling. LOC: Spelling error: MacCulloch has an "a" in it.