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Mrs. Chas. L. Oelrichs & Daughter Margaret (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 5 older comments, and then…
• swanq said:

  Possibly Mrs. Charles de Loosey Oelrichs. In 1921, according to NYT of June 30, 1921, query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F05E4DD1731EF33A... she got a divorce from Charles and custody of a 12-yr-old daughter, Marjorie. That could be the girl in the picture presumably taken some 7 years earlier. If so, the woman is the former Marjorie R. Turnbull. The wedding of daughter Marjorie to pianist and bandleader Eddy Duchin was reported in the NYT of June 6, 1935 select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20D10F63C5B177A... [requires subscription] She was described as the ONLY daughter of Mrs. Marjorie Oelrichs and Charles de Loosey Oelrichs. Sadly, she died two years later of complications following childbirth. See select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30E1FFC35541B72... [again requires subscription]

• Wystan said:

  Wikipedia, in its bio of Peter Duchin, describes Marjorie (in her adulthood) as a socialite of Newport, Rhode Island, and NYC. Note that in this photo her mother is holding a catalog with the words "Newport, R. I." writ large on the cover. Marjorie's son, the society bandleader and musician Peter Duchin (Peter Oelrichs Duchin) was born on July 28, 1937. Marjorie died five days later. Peter was reared by wealthy family friends, Averell Harriman and his wife, Marie Whitney Harriman. (Harriman later was a governor of New York, but other Bain/LOC photos, contemporaneous with this one, show him as coach of the Yale rowing crew.)

• Mick said:

  Hello... used this pic for a silly edit.. thanks :D

• Anne (LOC P&P) said:

  Swanq: Thanks for the full and correct names for these persons. We'll include these in a note next time we update.

• Wystan said:

  But here is another Bain/LOC photo, of a different woman (with a different girl), who also is identified as Mrs. Oelrichs. Moreover, this photo, like the other, appears to have been taken in the resort city of Newport, RI: [Note: Bain's identification is in error. This is not Mrs. Oelrichs, but Mrs. Amos Pinchot and daughter.] I believe that Peter Duchin is still alive. He would be 72. Perhaps somebody from the Library of Congress could request his assistance in straightening out the discrepancies before it is too late. Incidentally, the building behind the woman and girl in the photo above also appears in this Bain/LOC photo of Mrs. Amos Pinchot (with her daughter and husband, Amos Pinchot), posted more recently: (Mrs. Pinchot is the woman mistakenly identified as Mrs. Oelrichs in another Bain/LOC photo from Newport, RI.)