Mrs. G.M. Bowen (Waterloo, Iowa)
1890 (ca)
Banner lady for The Waterloo Courier

Cabinet card
New York Historical Society
Subject File, PR068
 
The article [June 20th, 1954 Waterloo Courier] identified the model as 18-year-old Emma Hackett and the occasion for the photograph as a Merchants' Carnival on May 21 and 22nd, 1889.
 
"The Mysterious Mrs. G. M. Bowen", New-York Historical Society
(Posted: 8 April 2011, accessed: 3 January 2015)
blog.nyhistory.org/the-mysterious-mrs-g-m-bowen/
 
LL/57409