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William Charles Flynn was a perfect "eugenic baby"--winner in at least fourteen Better Baby contests sponsored by eugenically-oriented groups. He was in the news at this tender age (37 months in March 1915), because his mother found him a good eugenic match for a future wife: 17-month-old "perfect" baby Alene Calvert Houck, herself the winner of six better baby contests. Both children had scored a perfect 100 on measurements intended to set an ideal. "The mothers are convinced that fate has thrown their children together for some great purpose, but they have agreed that they will not resort to any form of coercion in shaping the future of their children." news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19150327&... trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/60066021 The Trove link includes the respective physical measurements of William and Alene. Best I can figure, he did not, in fact, marry Miss Houck.

He looks like a tough guy in the making and may have been a handful to any woman he ended up with! -- Seen on my Flickr home page. (?)

Fascinating but the basis of eugenics was very creepy and disturbing particularly after viewing the Child Labor set.

prima seadiva Indeed! Also, looking again at that loincloth, or whatever he's wearing. Doesn't look to be big enough or folded right to be a diaper. Weird little detail.

Wonder if this is the same William C. Flynn born in 1912. Could be, the news stories about him were dated at Los Angeles. If so, his short life probably didn't fulfill the expectations of his "perfect" early days. www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=18187278

Her wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Brady

Lovely

"Alice Brady's Skating Cap" is one of several portraits made of the actress Alice Brady over the years by Ira (Ira Lawrence) Hill (1877-1947). "Hill opened a New York studio ca.1905; 'the Cecil Beaton of his time in New York,' he photographed the wealthy and socially prominent in his studio and documented social events around the country. He photographed celebrities such as Helen Hayes and Tallulah Bankhead, and published frequently in magazines. He married a succession of five debutantes." [1] "Hill was the most important theatrical portraitist from 1913 to 1917, and a significant portraitist from 1917 to 1924, yet his aesthetic interests increasingly fixed on fashion. In full-figure images--which supplanted the Gibson Head in his posing in 1912--dress mattered as much as personality." [2]  

Thanks for the links and for providing information about the photographer. We can add to the description when we next update it.

She reminds me of a young Linda Ronstadt.

That's one hell of a belt. Awesome. I wonder where it is now...

Would someone want to see this if they were searching the tag - jewelry? Should a jewelry tag be added?

This belt is in a musuem in New York

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Wells_(boxer) If you read the belt it says "lightweight" champion, not welterweight. So this is 1911 NOT 1914. Twenty-round Fight. Matt Wells Lightweight Champion Of Great Britain. Montreal Gazette on Feb 28, 1911 London February Matt Wells won a twenty round fight tonight from Fred. Welsh for the lightweight championship of great Britain and the Lonsdale belt