Scope and Contents
A collection of eight folders containing photographs/cabinet cards of immediate and distant family members of Brandon Thomas
and his wife Marguerite Leverson.
One folder with four cabinet card of Brandon Thomas and one b/w photo. Two of the cabinet cards feature Brandon Thomas in
theatrical apparel and the other two feature him in formal clothing. In one of the theatrical cabinet cards, he is shown hugging
Miss Winifred Emery during a scene in "Sowing the Wind"; the other shows Thomas wearing an outfit for his role in the "Cabinet
Minister". Dates approximated to be around 1880-1900.
One folder with one photograph of Marguerite, two of Amy, three of Silvia, and five of Jevan. For Silvia, there are two photos
of her as a young adult and one as a child. Three of Jevan's photographs are of him as a soldier in WWI, with one of him in
his middle-age.
One folder with three photographs of Marguerite's father James Leverson and one of his brother M. L. Leverson.
Two folders with twelve photographs of Marguerite's sister Lily, a young girl, and a toddler. It is possible that the young
girl and the toddler are the same individual (based on photographic likeness) and that Lily is her/their mother.
One folder containing what might be eight photographs (mostly portraits) of Lily Leverson (based on contextual evidence from
the other photographs) as a young woman. Also contains a single cabinet card of her as a teenager.
One folder with two photographs of Eugene Mayer, one of Amy Leverson, one of Carrie Morris (a cousin of Brandon Thomas), and
three of Louis de Goldschmidt (relation of Marguerite's mother Henriette).
One folder of photographs featuring individuals that are unidentified but have a strong likelihood of belonging to Brandon-Leverson
families based on contextual evidence and facial similariites. For example, one of the cabinet cards depicts an infant that
is likely to be Amy Brandon Thomas, but the boy next to her is unidentified.