Ray Fiol is the daughter of Holocaust victims who died at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Fiol was smuggled out a labor camp and protected by a French family during the war.
May Bradford at the center of the cartoon, alias "Belinda Bluegrass." A Stetson with snakeskin hatband was standard headgear for the young mining camp business woman. The cartoon appeared in the Tonopah Daily Sun on May 12, 1905.