The first of the five photographs, taken by Elsie Wright in 1917, shows Frances Griffiths with the alleged fairies.

The Cottingley Fairies appear in a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, two young cousins who lived in Cottingley, near Bradford in England.

In 1917, when the first two photographs were taken, Elsie was 16 years old and Frances was 10.

In the early 1980s Elsie and Frances admitted that the photographs were faked using cardboard cutouts of fairies copied from a popular children's book of the time, but Frances maintained that the fifth and final photograph was genuine.

Cottingley Beck, where Frances and Elsie claimed to have seen the fairies

In mid-1917 ten-year-old Frances Griffiths and her mother – both newly arrived in the UK from South Africa – were staying with Frances ' aunt, Elsie Wright's mother, in the village of Cottingley in West Yorkshire ; Elsie was then 16 years old.

Frances and Elsie said they only went to the beck to see the fairies, and to prove it, Elsie borrowed her father's camera, a Midg quarter-plate.

Frances was invited to stay with the Wright family during the school summer holiday so that she and Elsie could take more pictures of the fairies.

Because Frances and Elsie insisted that the fairies would not show themselves if others were watching, Elsie's mother was persuaded to visit her sister's for tea, leaving the girls alone.

To protect the girls ' anonymity, Frances and Elsie were called Alice and Iris respectively, and the Wright family was referred to as the Carpenters.

He again brought cameras and photographic plates for Frances and Elsie, but was accompanied by the clairvoyant Geoffrey Hodson.

By now Elsie and Frances were tired of the whole fairy business.

Years later Elsie looked at a photograph of herself and Frances taken with Hodson and said: " Look at that, fed up with fairies!

" Both Elsie and Frances later admitted that they " played along " with Hodson " out of mischief ", and that they considered him " a fake ".

Elsie and Frances eventually married and lived abroad for many years.

Elsie maintained it was a fake, just like all the others, but Frances insisted that it was genuine.

Both Frances and Elsie claimed to have taken the fifth photograph.

In a 1985 interview on Yorkshire Television's Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers, Elsie said that she and Frances were too embarrassed to admit the truth after fooling Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes: " Two village kids and a brilliant man like Conan Doyle – well, we could only keep quiet.

" In the same interview Frances said: " I never even thought of it as being a fraud – it was just Elsie and I having a bit of fun and I can't understand to this day why they were taken in – they wanted to be taken in.

The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.

However, Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sussex said Kanzō Umehara considered the Ainu and some Ryukyuans to have " preserved their proto-Mongoloid traits " According to anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons physical features of the Proto-Mongoloid were characterized as, " a straight-haired type, medium in complexion, jaw protrusion, nose-breadth, and inclining probably to round-headedness ".

" Rather, remember that Elsie, Ena and Co. were the first of their kind ever seen on British television.

William and Elsie were husband and wife.

Elsie and " Rudy's Library " were shown on the Today show on May 31, 2005.

Elsie and the " Monowi Tavern " were featured on CBS Sunday Morning on October 29, 2006, and again on August 12, 2007.

Elsie, the village, the tavern, and library were featured on an episode of Only in America with Larry the Cable Guy, where Larry announced on a radio show that he was having a hotdog roast that very day to help raise money for Elsie's village.

There was one other cut made after Gilbert's death: Separate lyrics for Elsie and Point, not found elsewhere, were cut during the " All frenzied, frenzied with despair they rave " section of the Act I finale.

Their son William Goodsell Rockefeller married Elsie Stillman, daughter of National City Bank president James Stillman, and they were the parents of James Stillman Rockefeller.

His sisters Elsie and Doris Waters were well-known comediennes who usually performed as " Gert and Daisy ".

Only two of the party's 295 candidates were elected — Charest and Elsie Wayne.

Marino married the rich American Mary Elsie Moore ; they were the parents of Don Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince di Civitella-Cesi, who married the Infanta Beatriz of Spain, the daughter of King Alfonso XIII — and of Donna Marina Torlonia di Civitella-Cesi, the wife of American tennis player Francis Xavier Shields and grandmother of the American actress Brooke Shields.

In May 1914, when James Deering, the International Harvester heir, and his travelling companion and long-term artistic advisor Paul Chalfin, a decorative painter and interior decorator who once worked for Elsie de Wolfe, were lent one of the smaller casinas at La Pietra, Acton commissioned Suarez to take them around and show them some villas they would not otherwise have had access to.

They were owned by such arbiters of fashion as Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom, and Elsie de Wolfe, popular American interior decorator.

It was published in book form in November, though its sales were half that of Elsie Venner.

Both girls married and lived abroad for a time after they grew up, yet the photographs continued to hold the public imagination ; in 1966 a reporter from the Daily Express newspaper traced Elsie, who had by then returned to the UK.

In 1966, a reporter from the Daily Express newspaper traced Elsie, who was by then back in England.

The collection included prints of the photographs, two of the cameras used by the girls, watercolours of fairies painted by Elsie, and a nine-page letter from Elsie admitting to the hoax.

Storylines throughout the decade included: a mystery poison-pen letter received by Elsie Tanner, the 1962 marriage of Ken Barlow and Valerie Tatlock, the death of Martha Longhurst in 1964, the birth of the Barlow twins in 1965, Elsie Tanner's wedding to Steve Tanner as well as a train crashing from the viaduct ( both in 1967 ), the murder of Steve Tanner in 1968, and a coach crash in 1969.

The original cast was created by Tony Warren, with the characters of Ena Sharples ( Violet Carson ), Elsie Tanner ( Patricia Phoenix ) and Annie Walker ( Doris Speed ) as central figures.

Elsie was the tart with a heart, who was constantly hurt by men in the search for true love.

Blanche Hunt ( Maggie Jones ) embodied the role of the acid-tongued busybody originally held by Ena Sharples, Sally Webster ( Sally Dynevor ) has grown snobbish, like Annie Walker, and a number of the programme's female characters mirror the vulnerability of Elsie Tanner and Bet Lynch.

While at the school she took a class called " Sex in Ethnology " taught by Elsie Clews Parsons.

* Sechrist, Elsie with foreword by Cayce, Hugh Lynn ( 1974 ).

The tune, " Oh, Give Me Time for Tenderness " sung by Judith was written by Edmund Goulding and Elsie Janis.

A collection of her verse has appeared in English in " Flora Brovina, Call me by my Name, Poetry from Kosova " in a bilingual Albanian-English Edition, translated by Robert Elsie, New York: Gjonlekaj 2001.

Nil Desperandum was later occupied by George Greens daughter Elsie Jane and her husband Eric Blewitt from the early 1930s to the early 1950s when Eric was killed drenching a horse.

Sixty people, forty six adults and fourteen children, settled on the townsite that is now Duchesne and called it by its first name " Elsie "( Glen ).

Jack Point, a jester, and Elsie Maynard, a young singer, are pursued by a rowdy crowd that demands merriment and threatens the two strolling players.