Correct Clara Harris photo

[Lincoln Wonk]

(02-25-2019 05:59 PM)L Verge Wrote:  If you compare the "new" photo of Clara with the one in American Brutus and also take into consideration the changes in features that likely occurred over passing years and the stress that living with Henry caused, you will see definite resemblances. Personally, I think that Clara would have preferred for the "old" photo to continue to be labeled as her -- much more attractive to this catty lady.

You thought she came across as catty too? (Her crows remark)

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(02-25-2019 08:06 PM)ReignetteC Wrote:  The Chicago History Museum has image(s) of Clara Harris in its archives. One is a Brady photograph. Another image that depicts a "Mrs. Clara Harris and her two children" looks a lot like her but the date attributed to it (1911) is incorrect as she was deceased by then. I'd be interested to hear what you think ...
https://images.chicagohistory.org/en/sea...ARA+HARRIS

Amazing photos.

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(02-26-2019 03:09 PM)Susan Higginbotham Wrote:  I would guess it is a photograph of another Clara Harris that happens to belong to the museum. The museum doesn't identify it as being the Clara Harris who was married to Henry Rathbone. (It also notes that the photograph was taken in a Chicago room, and unless I'm wrong Clara had no association with Chicago.)

Good point. Their son Henry Riggs Rathbone did wind up as a rep from Illinois, but I don't recall any Chicago association for them.

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(02-25-2019 03:37 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  

(02-25-2019 02:37 PM)Lincoln Wonk Wrote:  Hi everyone,
I think I remember a post about Clara Harris' photo at Ford's being incorrect.
I couldn't find it in a search though. Does anyone know which Clara photo is correct?

Kathy, please see this web page for help on this:

https://www.fords.org/blog/post/photos-f...-identity/

Ed Steers' Lincoln Assassination Encyclopedia has the correct photo. Also, Mike Kauffman's American Brutus has a photo of her that I do not believe I've seen in any other source.

Roger, Thanks so much. The Ford's blog is what got me wondering in the first place, but I should have looked in Ed's encyclopedia straight off. Great photo. Thanks for the idea. I just looked at American Brutus. That is a different shot of Clara Harris -- and a really different shot of Henry Rathbone.