Maude Allison Price Costain was a former beauty queen (representing New Orleans in the 1922 Miss America Pageant) and also a silent movie actress.  Costain met her while working as a still photographer for movies shot in New York.  She became his wife and business partner in 1925.

[The color in this print has been digitally corrected.]

 

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Maude (Mrs. Harold Haliday Costain)

Harold Costain, c.1937 
vintage tri-color carbro print 
10 5/8 × 13 1/8”