August 29,1914 - Helen's Family Summer Photos

Here is a wonderful collection of photographs that we have of Helen and her family at the end of the Summer of 1914.  Most of the photos have Helen and Florrie but I think Lillie was a little young to hang out with her older sisters. According to Helen's date book Abe came out to Far Rockaway on August 29th. Just in time for the photos. Perhaps her mother Bertha was the photographer because she does not appear in any of the photographs.

 Here is a group photo where I marked the people that I can identify.

From left to right: Helen (age 20), Netty, Lillie (age 14) and Florrie (age 19).

Netty Matier was a friend of Helen's that she met while at Barnard. Since Netty was French and they spoke French together. They also shared their love of music and the piano. Netty eventually married and became Netty Munk and taught piano to all of Helen's children. She would travel out of New York City by train to give them lessons. I will soon follow up with a photograph that I took of her in the late 1970s in her New York apartment. Netty and Helen remained friends until her death in 1984 at the age of 93.

Florrie and Helen

Helen, Abe (age 15) and Florrie

Helen, John Rosenstein (their father) and Florrie

Fun beach snapshot of friends.with Florrie and Helen at the top.

Hanging out on the beach with friends. Florrie is in the center and Helen is on the far right.

I noticed that on the umbrella that they were under a store had sponsored the advertising. So I did a little research and discovered that the store was called Casperfield and Cleveland. It was a jewelry store located in lower Manhattan. Below is an article that I found from the New York Times archives that gave proof to the store's existence.

So this ends the summer of 1914 and soon Helen and her siblings will be back at school in NYC.

The next letter will be on September 16.