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Elsie Wright, 16 Years Old 1901 - 1988 An artist who attended Bradford Art College since she was 13 years old. She worked in a photographic lab and a greeting card factory during the |
| war. In the darkroom her job was to create composite photos of fallen soldiers with |
| pictures of loved ones. She also had the opportunity to work with plate cameras. |
| Later she emigrated to America to escape the media attention. To her dismay the tales |
| of the Cottingley Fairies were well known even in Maine. |
| Elsie married an engineer and then emigrated to India, where she was an army driver |
| during the war. She returned to England after the 1947 declaration of independence and |
| soon the media tracked her down and her privacy was lost again. |
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Frances Griffiths, 10 Years Old 1907 - 1986 She and her mother moved to Cottingley from South Africa to live with her cousin. Her photographed with the dancing fairies has been described as the |
| most reproduced photo in history and is instantly recognized by people across the |
| world. Throughout her life she kept her continued to inform the inform the media that |
| the pictures were not faked. When she was elderly, she admitted that the photos were |
| faked, during an interview. She still maintained that she really did see fairies and she did |
| play with them at the Beck. |
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| Elsie 1920 | Frances 1920 |