thesheehyskeffingtonphotographiccollection

Alva Belmont centre front -

See - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alva_Belmont

Sheehy-Skeffington has been posted up here previously ...will have a rummage post rummage edit, it was Lilian Metge photo I was thinking of. She was arrested with SS for leafletting

Mrs Sheehy-Skeffington was in the USA in early 1917. The news of her safe arrival in New York City was announced in the Irish Citizen on Jan 6th. The Irish Citizen carried regular news of her visit, and she also wrote pieces as "H.S.S."

They (H.S.S. and her 7-year-old son Owen) were still in America as reported in the Irish Citizen on 3rd March. A speech made at Carnegie Hall gets mentioned quite a lot.

“Alva Belmont, seated second from right, was the wealthy former wife of a Vanderbilt and Belmont, and the most important financial benefactor of the National Woman’s Party. Dripping in jewels, she attends the Women's Voter Convention, Sept. 1915.” via Alamy

Previously, on this channel www.dib.ie/biography/condon-edward-omeagher-a1924 www.historyireland.com/manchester-martyrs/ digital.nli.ie/Record/vtls000549500 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Martyrs “God save Ireland”

Captain Edward O'Meagher Condon (1840-1915) had fine handwriting in 1880 - any graphologists watching? - digital.nli.ie/Record/vtls000549500

The Hewke Studio at 469 Main Street, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA is looking very sad (2019) - goo.gl/maps/GcuxFjQhCCVbkGvUA

Flickr sometimes amazes! Another portrait from the Hewke Studio (same imprint at an angle), dated 1909, via smallcurio

Red Herring! And this fun "Photo strip gal" via Suzanne

10 July 1919 was a Thursday ...

De Young's was at "Broadway, cor. 17th St., New York" according to the reverse side. But which of three corners?
Broadwayview - maps.app.goo.gl/Sjs6eyHzi9hkkXTYA

Aha! It is the building on the right in Broadwayview above.
'... Around 1900 Joseph de Young opened his photography studio in the building. In 1903 the Drake Business School began operations in the upper floors, advertising “well lighted and cheerful rooms” where students could be trained in shorthand, telegraphy, higher accounting and other business courses.
Joseph De Young’s Photograph Gallery boasted that it was the “largest photographic establishment in New York City” and it would stay here for decades. In 1907 it was instrumental in the apprehension of a bizarre thief. ... ..."
via - daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-1846-no-857-br...

Flickr is sometimes amazing! Via The Library of Congress who have several photos of Elisabeth Freeman suffragette-ing -
More - www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=8623220%40N02&view_all...

The Belfast News-letter is amazing!

A possible match from May 1st 1914. A Z-Elizabeth rather than S-Elisabeth, but remember Fraser/Frazer. Shes in New York and sounds like the sort of person who would belong in the Sheehy-Skeffington circle of acquaintances.

The reverse says that Clair Marcelle were photographers in NYC and Philadelphia.

I see google hits in 1921, 1937 for "Clair Marcelle" 5th Ave

Niall McAuley And from Library Towers catalogue, and other libraries in the States, Mrs Margaret E. Hickey wrote letters from New York, and specifically Brooklyn.

I think her perm looks 1930s?

Margaret signs off this letter to Joseph McGarrity as writing from
2177 Bedford Avenue (is that Brooklyn?)
and from
Irish Progressive League
229 Lex[ington] Ave[nue]

That letter is from the digital library at Villanova University. Beautiful clear handwriting. Margaret was obviously well acquainted with Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington.

There is a Margaret Hickey ion the 1940 US census living in New York, West 153rd St., born ~1905 in Ireland. EDIT: (not her)