Friday Mystery Foto #45 Solved: A Group of Gilded Age Heirs and Heiresses at Newport, R.I. in 1893
Did you identify some of these Gilded Age children?
Identify as many individuals as possible in this 1893 photo.
Left to right: Back row; Judith Gray; Marion Fish (daughter of Marion Graves Anthon Fish and Stuyvesant Fish); Daisy Post; Consuelo Vanderbilt; Mary Goelet; Lily Oelrichs; Josephine Brooks. Front row: Brian Goelet; Willie K.; Roger (unknown); Harold Vanderbilt; Cyril Haten; Robert Watson.
Consuelo Vanderbilt, Mary Goelet and Lily Oelrichs all married British Dukes and became Dutchesses.
Hints;
- There are three Vanderbilt children in the photo
Willie K. Jr., Harold Vanderbilt and Consuelo Vanderbilt.
- Everyone in the photo was from very prominent gilded age families
See answer above.
- Two individuals in the photo set a certain speed record together at Ormond Beach, Florida in 1904
Willie K. Jr. and Robert Watson were driver and mechanician setting the land speed record in Willie K's Mercedes in Ormond Beach in 1904.
Kudos if you can identify the location of the photo.
Newport, Rhode Island
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Congrats and Kudos to Steve Lucas for identifying the individuals and location in the very difficult photo.
Greg O.
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Just a guess. Knowing how the Robber Barons owned the North Shore, and from the looks of the vegetation, I think they were sitting on THE Shelter Rock for which Shelter Rock Rd is named. I regularly passed by the massive boulder but never got out of my car to take a closer look.
Going from left to right we have: Back row; Judith Gray; Marion Fish; Daisy Post; Consuelo Vanderbilt; Mary Goelet; Lily Oelrichs; Josephine Brooks. Front row: Brian Goelet; Willie K.; Roger (somebody); Harold Vanderbilt; Cyril Haten; Robert Watson. The photo was taken in Newport, Rhode Island, probably somewhere along the Cliff Walk. Robert Watson was Willie K’s passenger during the record run at Ormond Beach in 1904.