Born in New York City, she was raised as a stamp collector from an early age in the environment of her father’s rare collections and numerous prominent philatelic friends, she herself became a highly regarded collector of stamps and a recognized figure in the field of philately.
Serious philatelic research and collecting, up to the early 20th century, was generally regarded as a field for "men only" to enjoy.
Louise Boyd Dale was prominent in breaking this cultural mold, and establishing women in the ranks of philately.
After she inherited Alfred Lichtenstein's stamp collection and, as the years and decades passed, the Buenos Aires “barquitos” tete-beche pair was never seen again, nor was it offered in the series of Dale-Lichtenstein public auctions held by the H. R. Harmer firm.
They had two children: Anne Boyd Dale (born January 4, 1941), and John Denny Dale Jr (born October 23, 1947)[1] After her death at the early age of 54 in 1967, many of the collections were held by the Anne Boyd Lichtenstein Foundation and made available to students and philatelic organizations to further philatelic research.