Mary Elizabeth Hallock Greenewalt photograph with Nourathar instrument, Colony Theater, New York
Permanent ID:
11776Date:
circa 1932Inscription:
Mrs. Mary Hallock Greenewalt showing in her face the unendureable tormenting she recieved at the hands of the electric aggregations in New York.See account of opposite page. (Recto)
I remember after these number of years the utterly shocked expression on the face of the photographer for Underwood + Underood when he faced me with his camera inthe "property"-cluttered corner of the Colony Theater N.Y.
He saw on my face the cruelty the frustration, the teasing I had been subjected to by the influence of the electric aggregations to keep me out of showing an instrument which would have makde it so much harder for them to "get away" with appropriating the [illegible] fruits of my labor which after all had caused them to make untold money through tinkered up switch-boards as it was. Many people saw. I am wondering how much this helped their final upset at the hands of Mr. Roosevelt. (Verso)