undated
GUSN-368713
Studio portrait of Alice Blight taken at The Notman Photographic Co. in Boston, Massachusetts. Alice is depicted wearing a dress with lace detail, a lace bonnet, and boot. She is pictured with two dogs, one on either side. The cabinet card is undated.
studio portraits
girls
clothing
dresses (garments)
bonnets (hats)
boots
canines
cabinet photographs
black-and-white prints (photographs)
Miss Alice / Blight / dr. of Atherton / Blight and now (1930) / Mrs. Gerald Lowther (handwritten)
Gift of Miss Clara Winthrop / 14 Oct. 1930 (handwritten)
1 cabinet card : black-and-white ; 6 1/2 x 4 1/4
PC001
General photographic collection
PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.6220.002
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Notman Photo Co. (Boston, Mass.) (Photographic studio)
cabinet photographs
black-and-white prints (photographs)
Lowther, Alice, Lady, 1873-1939
Notman, W.
Notman Photo Co. (Boston, Mass.)
Photograph
Portrait
Item
Alice Atherton Blight (1873-1939) was born to Philadelphia lawyer Atherton Blight (1834-1909) and Anna Loring "Nina" Greenough (1847-1897). She was one of three daughters. Alice was regularly featured in the pages of society magazines throughout her life. Following a three year engagement, she married British diplomat Sir Gerard Augustus Lowther, 1st Baronet (1858-1916) in 1905 in Newport, Rhode Island. The couple had three daughters, two of whom survived into adulthood: Edith Alice Cecilia Lowther (1906-1992) and Gladys Mabel Lowther (1908-1982).
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