Biographical/historical: Lillian Russell Solomon, also known as "Dawtie", the daughter of Edward Solomon, was born in England May 10, 1884. Changing her name to Dorothy, she, like her mother, worked in the theater, but without her mother's success. Also like her mother, she married several times, first to Abbot Lewis Einstein in August 1903. They divorced in 1906 and in 1922? she was Mrs. Dorothy Russell Calvert. She died in 1954.

Content: Studio portrait of Lillian Russell and her young daughter Lillian Russell Solomon, the child's arms around her mother's neck.

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Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "Lillian Russell with daughter Lillian Russell Solomon" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1850 - 2020. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/99be147a-6d75-e4bb-e040-e00a18063fbe

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Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "Lillian Russell with daughter Lillian Russell Solomon" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 5, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/99be147a-6d75-e4bb-e040-e00a18063fbe

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Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. (1850 - 2020). Lillian Russell with daughter Lillian Russell Solomon Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/99be147a-6d75-e4bb-e040-e00a18063fbe

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<ref name=NYPL>{{cite web | url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/99be147a-6d75-e4bb-e040-e00a18063fbe | title= (still image) Lillian Russell with daughter Lillian Russell Solomon, (1850 - 2020)|author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |accessdate=March 5, 2025 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}}</ref>

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Billy Rose Theatre Collection photograph file

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Lillian Russell

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Lillian Russell, [File A]