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Unidentified Woman, Possibly Esther Lape

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A photograph thought to be of Esther Lape building a stone garden feature at her home Salt Meadow in Connecticut. Esther Lape (1881-1981) was born in Wilmington, Delaware, on October 8, 1881. A graduate of Wellesley College, she taught English at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, the University of Arizona, and Barnard College in New York City. She was well known as a journalist, researcher, and publicist. Lape was also associated with the Women's Trade Union League and one of the founders of the League of Women Voters. Her life-partner was the scholar and lawyer, Elizabeth Read, who was Eleanor’s personal attorney and financial advisor. Together, Read, Lape, and ER remained not only dedicated to political issues but stalwart friends. As first lady, Eleanor rented a small apartment in a building owned by Lape and Read in Greenwich Village. In her later years, Lape served as a source of information for Joseph Lash's biographies on Eleanor. Lape died on May 17, 1981 in New York City.

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