Although there are no inscriptions on the print, it is accompanied by a faded photocopy which lists some of the people in the portrait and some cryptic details in various handwriting, (some of it very hard to decipher, and at least one listed name for the photograph appears to be a male name for a female student) Other information indicates who may have donated it and to whom. Inscription: Hellmuth Ladies' College - Presented to the London & Middlesex Historical Society, January 23, 1938. Elizabeth Durrant (Minnie) Raymond (1852–1945).
- 1. 1883–1888: William Caven Barron, Esq. (1864–1936) – Professor of Piano, Organ, and Music History
- 2. Edith Fitzgerald (née Edith Mary Jones; 1844–1928), 1864 marriage to Frederick Ardiel Fitzgerald (1840–1924)
- 3. Martha Wray (1862–1947)[a][1]
- 4.
- 5. 1885–1899: Thomas W. Martin, Esq. (1861–1943) – Musical Director, Professor of Piano, Harmony, and Music History[2]
- 6. Childs
- 8. Verda Kella (?)
- 10. Constance Meredith (1865–1967)
- 11. 1889–1899: Waldemar Arthur Blüthner, Esq. (1862–19??) – Professor of Piano and Harmony
- 12. Maude Cloudman Hudson, married to William Hamilton Merritt, Esq., M.D., C.M., R.C.P.S., Edin (1865–1924)
- 15. 1883–1892: Julian Ruggles Seavey, Esq. (1857–1940) – Director and Professor of Painting, Modelling, Carving, Decorative Art, and Design
- 22. Miss Nelda Von Seyfried (born 1856) – Professor of Singing
- 23. Buzzie Gurd (aka Laurie Buzzel Gurd, née Phoebe Buzzel Gurd; 1872–1895)
- 25. Mary Stoughton English (née Mulkins; born 1845), wife of Rev. Edward Noble English – Director
- 26. Ida Louisa English (1869–1937),[b] 1900 marriage to Corvin Weld (1868–1942) – Professor of Piano, Organ, and Italian
- 27. Miss Hattie English
- 28. Clark
- 29. 1889–1894: Elizabeth (Libby) Alberta Oakley, B.L. (1862–1961), 1903 marriage to Walter E. Chrysler[3]
- 30.
- 31.
- 32.
- 33.
Also listed on the photocopy is: Mrs. F.A. Fitzgerald, 293 King Street [and] in white mat - wood The London Room Archives index lists the source as: London Regional Art & Historical Museum, 1992.
- Edward Noble English[4]
Notes and references
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Inline citations
- ^ Diary of John J Elder, Ashgrove, Co Donegal and Toronto, Canada, Irish Immigration Data Base; PRONI T.1264/6; CMSIED 8811020
- ^ A Hundred Years of Music In America, William Smythe Babcock Mathews (1837–1912) (assoc. ed.), Chicago: G.L. Howe, Publisher (Granville L. Howe; born 1840) (1889); Philadelphia: Theodore Presser (1890), pg. 596; OCLC 862556
- ^ Leading Greeks an encyclopedia of the workers in the American college fraternities and sororities, 1915, William Collin Levere (ed.) (1915), pg. 55; OCLC 612415185
- ^ The Reverend John Beach and His Descendants, by Rebecca Donaldson Beach & Rebecca Donaldson Gibbons, New Haven: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press (1898), pg. 327; OCLC 1726318