[Mary Ellen Hockett Flanner, mother of Janet Flanner, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front] – Vintage Photo Print
![[Mary Ellen Hockett Flanner, mother of Janet Flanner, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front], [ca. 1900] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/7e/7e6d24768363-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: [Mary Ellen Hockett Flanner, mother of Janet Flanner, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Mary Ellen Hockett Flanner, mother of Janet Flanner, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front]
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Mary Ellen Hockett Flanner sits full-length for this portrait, seated and facing the camera with a steady, direct gaze. She was the mother of Janet Flanner, the Indiana-born writer who later reported from Paris for *The New Yorker* under the pen name Genêt. The photograph dates to about 1900, when Janet was a girl in Indianapolis, and it was later reproduced in Brenda Wineapple's 1989 biography *Genêt*. Its formal pose and close framing reflect the conventions of studio portraiture of the period.
| Created / published | [ca. 1900] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1900.Photographic prints 1900. |
| Notes | Janet Flanner-Solita Solano papers. Reference copy also available in BIOGRAPHICAL FILE. Published in: Genêt / Brenda Wineapple. New York : Ticknor & Fields, 1989. |
| Subjects | Flanner, Mary Ellen Hockett,--1862-1947. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,287 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-179310 |
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