The Washington Post January 07, 1923 EIGHTEEN -YEAR OLD WASHINGTON GIRL VISITS PIGMY TRIBE OF BRITISH GUIANA. Miss Lucil'e La Varre, with her brother, W.J. La Varre, photographed with a pigmy mother and baby on a 300-mile trip for scientific specimens from which they have just returned. Mr. La Varre made the journey in the interests of the Smithsonian Institute and Harvard University. *note.. you can see their shirts and hats. The rest of the picture is blackened from the photcopying. ********************************** The Washington Post May 08, 1922 A story about a soiree. lists all kinds of stuff.. sorry my poor typing fingers.. then says Mr. William J. La Varre, Jr., explorer, traveler and writer, of this city will be presented. *********************** Looks like they were there:-) margy ----- Original Message ----- From: "The Auchs" <theauchs@earthlink.net> To: <WashingtonDC-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 8:51 PM Subject: [WashingtonDC'' ] > My very bare threads for Washington D.C. > > a portrait of my great-grandmother with a handwritten annotation > identifying her in Washington D.C. in her seventies (between 1940-50?) and > another notation in family records identifying my great-aunt as "from > Washington" in the 1920s. > > They are respectively Lelia Goddin Haynes LA VARRE and Lucille LA VARRE, > later m. ROBBINS. > > Apparently, my great-grandfather William Johanne LA VARRE Sr. worked as a > naval architect but as a civilian. Their first son was born in 1898 in NY. > A portrait of g-gfather places him at Bremerton (Wash. State) in 1899 at > Puget Sound. That 'fact' could be flawed though. Their youngest son was > born in 1911 in Staten Island, NY. > > Apparently, when my grandfather (the youngest) went to college in the early > 30s, g-gfather left to sow whatever wild oats remained. I'm told he died > in the mid-1950s. > > Christina Auch > theauchs@earthlink.net > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >