Frances and Grace E. Hoyt were employed by Wallace Nutting early in his photography business as models in several pictures made in Vermont. They appear together in

"At The Side Door", studio #175,
"Indian Maidens", studio #533,
"A Cranford Tea Pouring", studio #914,
"A Chat At The Window", studio #915,
and, "The Sisters", studio #1178.

Frances, a soprano, and Grace E., a mezzo-soprano, performed internationally for forty years and were popular entertainers in New York and London. They were also well known for their transcontinental tour as soloist with John Phillip Sousa, (1854-1932), composer of "The Stars and Stripes Forever".

According to the program for their 1925/26 season, Frances and Grace Hoyt appeared in leading cities in the United States and Canada in a series of two hundred and fourteen concerts. Their program included solos, duets, costume musicals, character impersonations, tableuax chantants, recitations and monologues. The musical numbers ranged from the clasical to the popular, operatic, street, period and dialect songs, ballad and folk songs. Among the latter were the folk songs of sixteen different nations, performed not only in the costumes but in the language of the country.

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