Commemorating Jean Harlow, plus assorted reflections by Sophia D'Aurelio
1911-1926
Newborn Harlean with her nurse, 1911Baby Harlean at six months, circa 1911Baby Harlean at six months, circa 1911Baby Harlean at six months, circa 1911Baby Harlean, circa 1911Harlean with her maternal grandmother, Ella Harlow, circa 1911Baby Harlean by the ol’ flivver, circa 1913Harlean with her mother and father, circa 1913Harlean and kittens, circa 1913Harlean, circa 1913Harlean, circa 1914Harlean, circa 1915Harlean, circa 1915Harlean, circa 1915Harlean, circa 1915Harlean and her mother, circa 1916Harlean, about five, with her childhood dog ‘Buster’ circa 1916Harlean circa 1916Harlean in front of her house on 79th in Kansas City, circa 1917Harlean, circa 1918In front of her house on 79th Street in Kansas City, circa 1918In Kansas City, circa 1918Harlean outside her house in Kansas City, 1919Harlean at home in Kansas City, circa 1919Harlean in her Kansas City yard, circa 1919. Her father kept this photo in his wallet.Harlean’s 1920 yearbook photo from Miss Barstow’s in Kansas City, Mo. (Center, top row)Harlean and her father, Mont Clair (whose head has been ripped off), Kansas City, circa 1921Harlean in a school production of Robin Hood, 1922Twelve-year-old Harlean in front of her home on Gramercy Place in Los Angeles, 1923Harlean in Santa Monica, circa 1923Harlean by Empire Studios in Los Angeles, 1923Harlow and her mother by Empire Studios in Los Angeles, 1923Harlean by Empire Studios in Los Angeles, 1923Harlean by Empire Studios in Los Angeles, 1923 (courtesy David Stenn)Harlean’s 1924 yearbook photo at the Hollywood School for GirlsEighth-grade Harlean Carpenter on the Hollywood School For Girls Volleyball Team, 1924 (upper row, second from left).Harlean by Empire Studios in Los Angeles, circa 1925 (signed to Grandmother Harlow)Fourteen-year-old Harlean with a date, Leon Terrell Snow, 1925. From the December 1991 issue of Reminisce magazine.Freshly bobbed Harlean at Camp Cha-Ton-Ka in Michigan, 1926Harlean at Camp Cha-Ton-Ka, 1926 (courtesy David Stenn)Harlean in ‘A Winter’s Tale’ at Ferry Hall, 1926. Courtesy Lake Forest Academy archivesHarlean (furthest right) in ‘A Winter’s Tale’ at Ferry Hall, 1926. Courtesy Lake Forest Academy archivesFifteen-year-old Harlean Carpenter, 1926Fifteen-year-old Harlean Carpenter, 1926
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