Reply #4: I wonder. I found the person who found the photographs saying she [View All]

[Hannah Bell]

had been unable to locate the people who placed the photographer's obit in the chicago paper in 2009: the chicago trib had "dead-ends on the people who placed the ad. They gave me an address that doesn't exist and a phone number that is disconnected."

Also, she says the woman was poor -- but the neighborhood she supposedly died in is wealthy.

She's first identified as French Jew -- then French Catholic -- then French anti-Catholic.

Photography wasn't a cheap hobby in the 50s, and her camera isn't cheap:



Just a little too serendipitous, it seems to me.