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Those bunny shoes on the crier are so cute!

Homer Family This is a series of portraits of the family of composer Sidney Homer (1864-1953) and his wife contralto Louise Dilworth Homer née Beatty (1871-1947). Sidney Homer composed many of his songs with the voice of his famous wife in mind. Among his most famous songs are "A Banjo Song" (Weeden), "Requiem" (Stevenson), "Casey at the Bat" (Thayer), and "The House that Jack Built" ("Mother Goose.") Sidney was Louise's music theory teacher in Boston, MA.  After their marriage in 1895, they went to Europe for further voice coaching. Louise Homer's European debut in 1898 was in Vichy, as Leonora in La Favorita, and in 1900 she made her American opera debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City singing Amneris in Verdi's Aida.  She sang at the Met for 19 consecutive seasons, often singing opposite such acclaimed singers as Enrico Caruso, Geraldine Farrar, and Ernestine Schumann-Heink. She made many phonographic recordings with Victor Co.  Composer Samuel Barber was her nephew, and Louise performed several of his songs.  In 1923 and 1924 she was listed as one of the 12 greatest living women by the National League of Women Voters.[1] They had six children, Louise Homer, Jr. (1896-1970) (Louise Homer Stires), son Sidney Homer, Jr. (1902-1983), twin daughters Anne Marie Homer (1907-1995) (Anne Homer Doerflinger) and Katharine Homer (1907-1997) ("Kay", Katharine Homer Fryer); and daughters Hester Makepeace Homer (1911-1967) ("Miss Happy", Hester Homer Henry) and Helen Joy Homer (1915-1946) ("Joy", Joy Homer Doerflinger) There are currently 34 photographs of the Homer family in the Bain Collection on Flickr.  You can view them all here.   They were first identified by Art Siegel, B-59, pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity), Wystan, swanq, and Richard Norton.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called What's that picture?, home of Flickr's unidentified vintage photographs, and we'd love to have this and other other mysteries that you may have added to the group!

believe it or not but my family lived in this house in 1953

My step father owned the ranch which the Urch Halfway house sat on. His name was Karl Roelofs of Lethbridge. As the house went into a sad but decaying state, I remember that my dad's cattle would walk right into it to escape the wind and snow. My step-dad is now gone, but now I look back and wish he would have preserved the half-way house. As a girl in the mid-seventies, I remember the original wallpaper hanging from the walls in shreds, pink with little rosebuds, and my little brother and I could still go upstairs, carefully, as the stairs were then starting to give out. I still recall the sounds of the wind whistling through the open windows where the glass panes had once been. Now living on the west coast, I often wonder if there is anything left of the halfway house still standing. Time to take journey back one of these days. Thanks for posting this.

my dad worked for Katl Roelofs in 1953 karl owned the ranch by the old man river and #3 highway at that time dad use to go back and forth by horse from the house to the ranch i was only 10 years old then but i loved it there -as far as i knoe there is nothing left -----i remember the natives coming by to get wood i live in ontario now my dads name was addo swarts- mom name henny swarts---my name is lucs swarts thank you very much

i would love to know more about this place ty