Cabinet Card size photo 6 5/8th" x 5 1/2" of a young Annie Robe.
Photograph by New York photographer of Broadway Celebrities, Benjamin Falk.

"Born on October 14, 1853, Manhattanite Benjamin J. Falk was an 1872 graduate of The City College of New York, then located at 23rd Street and Lexington Avenue. As a student, Falk also served as “a technician under photographer George Rockwood. Then in 1877, Falk opened his first photography studio at 347 East 14th Street. However, by 1881, he made the decision to relocate to 949 Broadway at 22nd Street, where Falk’s work purportedly “grew rapidly, developing largely in the line of portraits of celebrities.”

Annie Robe:
Annie Robe was an English-born American stage actress prominent in the final decades of the Victorian Era, the 1880s and 1890s. Robe's father was a scenic artist, and her mother was English actress Eliza Rugg. Robe began acting when she was 11 years old. Lester Wallack discovered her on a visit to England and brought her to the United States to act with his company. She was distantly related, through marriage, to Ethel Barrymore, whose husband Russell Griswold Colt was a relative of Robe's husband Daniel Paine Griswold. Robe died a widow at Pittsfield, Massachusetts on July 26, 1922