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Mrs. Margaret Newcome, of Famed Photograph Team Dies. Monterey, California; October 24, 1959. Mrs. Martha Swing Newcome, 89, a partner in Harris & Ewing, famed news photograph service at the turn of the century, died at her Pebble Beach home today. Her family settled in Stockton where her father started a brick factory. She subsequently moved to San Jose where she first met George Harris, a freelance photographer. They opened a photographic studio in San Jose. Harris traveled considerably with President Theodore Roosevelt and in 1905 Harris and Miss Ewing opened a studio in Washington, D.C. She described herself as "the front man," persuading famous people to sit for studio portraits while Harris, did the camera work and photo finishing. Mrs. Newcome left two nephews, Carl Kuntze of Stockton, California, and Paul Hammond of San Francisco, and three nieces, Ella deLeon of Los Angeles, Iva Kingsbury of San Jose and Viola Raczkowski of Hawaii. Lola Neff of Biggs, California, and several nieces and nephews. Dr. Neff was a member of Omicron Kappa Epsilon and Epsilon Alpha, dental honor societies at the University of California. Services will be held at the Fowler - Anderson Mortuary, 2244 Santa Clara Ave., with the Rev. Frank Randall of the First Congregational Church officiating

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