100 years ago today in Harlow History, October 1, 1926: As part of a series of back-and-forth communications providing information on future student Harlean Carpenter (AKA Jean Harlow), the headmistress of girl’s boarding school Ferry Hall, Eloise Ruthven Tremain, asks the fifteen-year-old’s doctor whether there was any truth behind her claim that she was forbidden … Continue reading A Century Ago: Harlow at Ferry Hall (Part 2)
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A Century Ago: Harlow at Ferry Hall (Part 1)
100 years ago today in Harlow History, September 8, 1926: Jean Harlow, at this point still fifteen-year-old Harlean Carpenter from Kansas City, gets a letter of reference from the manager of Kline’s Department Store in the same city advocating for her mother’s financial standing before admittance to swanky Ferry Hall, a girl’s boarding school in … Continue reading A Century Ago: Harlow at Ferry Hall (Part 1)
