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<p>[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 149725, member: 33"]Is there a photography studio mark at all? or a location?</p><p><br /></p><p>I did a search on <b>singer "Jane Lennox" 1902</b> -- just guessing about the singer idea. I found a Virginia newspaper from early October 1902. It's hard to locate the exact article through their viewer. There are many news items in the article in which the headline refers to a show called "Janice Meredith." One of the news items is about a David Belasco show called "The Auctioneer." It refers to "The new leading woman, Miss Jane Lennox, who received the highest praise for her singing and her acting..."</p><p><a href="http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=T19021005.1.17#" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=T19021005.1.17#" rel="nofollow">http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=T19021005.1.17#</a></p><p><br /></p><p>What I quoted appears in the third column, under the picture that says it is a scene from "Janice Meredith."</p><p><br /></p><p>Doesn't mean it's the same person, but at least there was somebody named Jane Lennox at that time who was performing in the U.S.</p><p><br /></p><p>Normally I don't necessarily think a photo like this would be of a performer. But something about the formality of the inscription makes me think that she did not know the person to whom she signed the photo. So she could be a performer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 149725, member: 33"]Is there a photography studio mark at all? or a location? I did a search on [B]singer "Jane Lennox" 1902[/B] -- just guessing about the singer idea. I found a Virginia newspaper from early October 1902. It's hard to locate the exact article through their viewer. There are many news items in the article in which the headline refers to a show called "Janice Meredith." One of the news items is about a David Belasco show called "The Auctioneer." It refers to "The new leading woman, Miss Jane Lennox, who received the highest praise for her singing and her acting..." [URL]http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=T19021005.1.17#[/URL] What I quoted appears in the third column, under the picture that says it is a scene from "Janice Meredith." Doesn't mean it's the same person, but at least there was somebody named Jane Lennox at that time who was performing in the U.S. Normally I don't necessarily think a photo like this would be of a performer. But something about the formality of the inscription makes me think that she did not know the person to whom she signed the photo. So she could be a performer.[/QUOTE]
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