Yes, I’d actually like that very much. ![]()
I think a better link is this one. That page you linked to is an author page.
I tried reverse Google images, but apparently that’s the only place it appears (which probably explains running coach’s reply, they just Googled it and didn’t notice your name at the top).
Looks like your best bet is to go to a library and find the archives of the dead-tree publication that photo originally ran in, or maybe it’ll be in a book that mentions her. Although given the photographer’s signature burned in at the bottom corner, it might not have been for publication. But in that case he’d probably have been mentioned in a book about her, and you have a date to narrow it down.
With any luck, another picture of them will turn up in the pile you have, where the photographer wasn’t a dumbass and wrote their names on the back. (Nowadays we use the metadata in the .jpg, but half-decent photojournalists back in the day would write the cutline on the back of the print in pencil or tape on a typed clipping of same.)
Can you scan the back of that one? We can at least try to figure out what any markings mean, and maybe one of us can use some Photoshop wizardry to find where the photographer wrote their names in crappy ink that has since rubbed off (it’s a longshot, but possible…)
Or if you can make out the photographers fancy signature (Maurice, but I can’t make sense of his last name) you could probably use Cecil’s newspaper credentials to get ahold of his estate and have them dig through his receipts.
I tried that, too, Gunslinger, with (obviously) the same results.
That bottom right sig, though hard for me to read, pretty obviously says Maurice Seymour, which was a NY studio (brothers Maurice and Seymour Zeldman) known for photographing celebrities (particularly Broadway performers).
This portrait of Jorgensen looks like the same shoot (based on hairstyle and tiara).