Shown here 90 years ago is Miss Mathilde Harding, pianist at WEAF New York. Miss Harding was a native of Washington, Pennsylvania, and according to the caption of this photo in the December 1926 issue of Citizen’s Radio Call Book magazine, she was 21 years old. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 18, 1935, she was later half of “20 fingers of Harmony,” a program that aired on NBC.

Donald Withycomb in 1935.

According to the January 1, 1935, issue of Broadcasting, she later married Donald Withycomb, a native of Montreal. After serving in the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War, he moved to the United States in 1922, where he was employed by NBC as assistant secretary. In 1934, he became general manager of WFIL, Philadelphia.

According to the Social Security Death Index, Mrs. Withycomb died in August 1967. Her birth date is listed as November 25, 1903. If true, then the Call Book publishers perpetrated a slight fib as to her age, since she would have been 23 years old when the picture was taken.