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Perhaps the missionary in Barbados mentioned in
The Chat [Brooklyn, NY] Nov 28 1914, P. 20
Chat of the Churches: First Free Baptist Church. Keap street and Marcy avenue, Brooklyn, NY

www.newspapers.com

"The Ladies' Aid Society held a meeting in the vestry room on Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Julla Willlams, the president, presided. Plans were made for collecting old linen for the Brooklyn Surgical Dressing Committee, which meet dally at Hotel St. George.
The society is also working for the missionary in Barbados, West Indies, who is Rev. S. A. Esterbrook. Arrangements were made for a surprise soclal to be held in the near future at the home of Mrs. F. W. Yates."

AND
Asbury Park Press, Aug 16 1913, P. 2, Col. 1, in Local Happenings
www.newspapers.com
"At the evangelical tent in Springwood avenue the Rev. S. A. Esterbrook, will conduct the meetings every night."

See also:
The Sun [New York], 19 January 1908, Image 20, P. 6, Second Section, Col. 7
www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org
"The Rev. Antoinette Esterbrook has just returned to her work on the Island of Barbados, British West Indies, after a short visit to her old home in the United States. Miss Esterbrook is a native of New York, a graduate of a mission training school and an ordained minister in the Free Baptist Church. She was at one time inspector of prisons at Manchester, N. H., and for several years carried on evangelical work in various parts of New England.
Sixteen years ago, without funds or influence, she went to Barbados and began holding open air meetings. Now her mission holdings include four churches, two day schools, one mission home, a children's home and a naval home, all housed in substantial buildings. She superintends the Tropical Training School of Bridgetown. which she founded, and conducts twenty meetings each week and four Sunday schools, besides directing a corps of native assistants in school and church work.
On the sixteenth anniversary of the founding of the mission she received a purse of $100 from the merchants of Berkeley as a token of their esteem, and the Colonial Secretary, the Hon. S. W. Knagg. paid a warm tribute to her character and work. Last July the British Government invested her with the power to perform civil marriages."

Although this may indicate who she was, and why she might have been in the news in 1908, it does not clarify the date or location of the photo, which looks like a graduation picture.

Another reference to S. Antoinette Esterbrook in Barbadoes[sic] is in
- www.onemag.org
See page 58.

An obituary is at
Barbados Advocate [British West Indies], July 12 1951, P. 3, Col. 6
ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu

"The Late Rev. Esterbrook
A Tribute

AFTER a lingering illness, the Rev. S. A. Esterbrook was called to rest from her earthly labours on Thursday, June 21st.
The deceased, who was an American, served as a Sunday School teacher and Evangelist in the Methodist Church, and at the age of 19, she was a captain in the Salvation Army.
On November 27th, 1904, Miss Esterbrook was ordained as Minister at the Hillsdale Baptist College, Mich. America, and graduated as a B.D. and D.E.
During her ministerial career in Barbados Miss Esterbrook served in the Free Baptist Church with much ardour and devotion, Through her instrumentality trained workers have gone from Barbados to be missionaries in Africa, and one laid down her life there.
With the assistance of others, several churches and missions were built, and the wide circle of friends which she made contributed generously to the Mission work, hereby enabling her to bring sunshine into the hearts of hundreds of the underprivileged of this Colony. It is true to state that both the merchants and planters gave unstintedly to the cause, as well as friends and well wishers in the U.S.A.
It is worthy of note to mention (hat during her active ministry the Rev. Esterbrook filled appointments in Canada and America, The results obtained therefrom were used in stimulating the work in Barbados.
After sixty years of missionary endeavour, Sarah Antoinette Esterbrook has passed on,
The mantle has fallen upon the shoulders of Rev. Ford-Moore, who is Superintendent of Court Free Baptist Church, Whitepark Road.
In honour of her memory a Memorial Service will be held at Court Free Baptist Church tonight at 7 o'clock and a cordial invitation is extended to all friends."

It seems possible that the picture was taken in 1904 when she graduated from Hillsdale Baptist College in Michigan

It's Smithbilt. No U.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair
"Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American author, muckraker journalist, and political activist, and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California. He wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his novel, The Jungle, which 'exposed the labor and sanitary conditions in the U.S. meatpacking industry', causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the enactment a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act."

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and

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Harcourt,_1st_Viscount_Harcourt
includes a picture (possibly the same picture, but not in a frame) of this woman and identifies her in
"On 1 July 1899, Harcourt married Mary Ethel Burns, daughter of American banker Walter Hayes Burns and his wife, Mary Lyman (née Morgan), a sister of J. P. Morgan. Through her, the family acquired the famous 'Harcourt emeralds'.

See

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Dare
"Phyllis Dare (born Phyllis Constance Haddie Dones; 15 August 1890 – 27 April 1975) was an English actress and singer famous for her performances in Edwardian musical comedy and other musical theatre in the first half of the 20th century.

Born in Chelsea, London, Dare first performed on stage at the age of nine, in the Christmas pantomime Babes in the Wood (1899), together with her sister, Zena. Later that year, she appeared as Little Christina in Ib and Little Christina. She soon played Mab in the Seymour Hicks musical Bluebell in Fairyland, and at the age of 15, she took over the starring role of Angela in The Catch of the Season.

In 1909, Dare created the role of Eileen Cavanagh in the hit musical The Arcadians, where she met the producer George Edwardes. This started a long association between the two, who collaborated on productions including The Girl in the Train, Peggy and The Quaker Girl. In 1912, she starred in The Sunshine Girl. In 1913 she joined the cast of The Dancing Mistress, as Nancy Joyce, at the Adelphi Theatre and continued to star in successful productions throughout the 1920s, including in the role of Mariana in The Lady of the Rose (1922)."

A possible context for this photo is discussed in NYT, Apr 17 1908
- www.nytimes.com

"John B. Stanchfield, attorney for the defense in the suit of Emanuel Weil and Minnie Weiler against the Directors, of the New York City Railway to recover losses on Metropolitan Street Railway stock, at the hearing before Justice William H. Young in the Municipal Court yesterday expounded an interesting theory on the propriety of Directors speculating upon information obtained in the discharge of their corporate duties. This was by way of blocking off an attempt by Eugene Kremer, counsel for the complainants, to compel H. H. Vreeland, President of the City Railway and the Metropolitan, to tell what stock of the Third Avenue road he bought or sold about the time that the Metropolitan was acquiring the control of the Third Avenue Railway."

"Mr. Kremer approached the subject of putting in evidence the minutes of a meeting of Metropolitan Street Railway Directors, showing that Thomas F. Ryan, William L. Elkins, P. A. B. Widener, and Mr. Vreeland were all present when the Third Avenue lease was passed upon."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gifford_Pinchot
"Gifford Pinchot (August 11, 1865 – October 4, 1946) was an American forester and politician. He served as the fourth chief of the U.S. Division of Forestry, as the first head of the United States Forest Service, and as the 28th governor of Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Republican Party for most of his life, though he joined the Progressive Party for a brief period.

Born into the wealthy Pinchot family, Gifford Pinchot embarked on a career in forestry after graduating from Yale University in 1889. President William McKinley appointed Pinchot as the head of the Division of Forestry in 1898, and Pinchot became the first chief of the U.S. Forest Service after it was established in 1905. Pinchot enjoyed a close relationship with President Theodore Roosevelt, who shared Pinchot's views regarding the importance of conservation."

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www.nytimes.com
"BOSTON, Aug. 2.-To-morrow, on the twenty-second birthday of Miss Gladys Lawson, eldest daughter of Thomas W. Lawson, Mr. and Mrs. Lawson will announce her engagement to Eben Blaine Stanwood, a well-known Boston society man. The wedding will take place in October.

Mr. Stanwood is the son of Francis M. Stanwood of 527 Beacon Street, Boston, and a grandnephew of the late James G. Blaine. He is a Harvard graduate and is prominent in many social organizations. Including the Hasty Pudding Club and the Puritan Club. The Stanwood residence is near the Winter residence of the Lawsons.

Miss Lawson is an accomplished horsewoman and athlete, and is the owner of the famous Gypsy Queen, winner of more than a score of blue ribbons. She also owns numerous valuable dogs."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Thomas
"Augustus Thomas (January 8, 1857 – August 12, 1934) was an American playwright.

Biography
Born in St. Louis, Missouri and son of a medical doctor, Thomas worked a number of jobs including as a page in the 41st Congress, studying law, and gaining some practical railway work experience before he turned to journalism and became editor of the Kansas City Mirror in 1889. Thomas had been writing since his teens when he wrote plays and even organized a small theatrical touring company.

Thomas was hired to work as an assistant at Pope's Theatre in St. Louis. During this time, he wrote a one-act play called Editha's Burglar, based on a short story by Frances Hodgson Burnett called The Burglar. After touring in the play, he expanded the show to four acts, renamed it The Burglar, and was able to get Maurice Barrymore to play the title role. Subsequently, he was hired to succeed Dion Boucicault adapting foreign plays for the Madison Square Theatre.

His first successful play, Alabama, was produced by Kirke La Shelle in 1891 and its financial reward allowed Thomas to write full-time."

Probably
- id.loc.gov
Neely, Thomas B. (Thomas Benjamin), 1841-1925

See digital.lib.ecu.edu
"Thomas Benjamin Neely (1841-1925) of Philadelphia was a prominent bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a traveling missionary, and a noted author and editor of religious books. For many years he labored as a missionary and church organizer in Western Europe and South America. During his travels, Neely corresponded with his family in Philadelphia, giving extensive descriptions of places and people he visited. It was his hope that the letters would later serve as a memoir for his journeys."

"Thomas Phillips (died 22 November 1693) was a Royal Navy officer and engineer who worked with some of the leading naval figures of his period, and was involved in military operations against the French during the Nine Years' War. ..."

via - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Phillips_(engineer)
And - www.dib.ie

Guessing the chain is encased in wood to make it float ?
Someone will know ...

beachcomber australia Which wood would work?

National Library of Ireland on The Commons
It might be dogwood. You can tell by the bark.

beachcomber australia Oh, that old chestnut!

The chain is wearing swimming trunks.

beachcomber australia Can't beleaf this new branch of research.

National Library of Ireland on The Commons
I am bamboozled. Perhaps I should log on.

beachcomber australia Good idea. Then you might be able to twig what's going on.

That's Mrs GEORGE Gould, nee Edith Kingdon.

Via The Peerage - www.thepeerage.com

"Leonie Blanche Jerome was born in August 1859.1 She was the daughter of Leonard Jerome and Clarissa Hall.1 She married Sir John Leslie, 2nd Bt., son of Sir John Leslie, 1st Bt. and Lady Constance Wilhelmina Frances Dawson-Damer, on 2 October 1884.1 She died on 21 August 1943.1
Her married name became Leslie. She was appointed Dame of Grace, Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (D.G.St.J.)2 She was awarded the Médaille de la Reine Elisabeth de Belgium ... "

From this photo?

mostlybritishhistory.substack.com

" ... On 2 October 1884 in New York City, with disapproval from both families, Leslie married Leonie Blanche Jerome (1859–1943), daughter of the wealthy American financier Leonard Jerome .[9] Leonie's sister was Jennie, wife of Lord Randolph Churchill and mother of Winston Churchill.[9] Leslie and his wife had four children:[2] "

via - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_John_Leslie,_2nd_Baronet (includes this photo)

Is this a drawing from a photo?

"Camera-Etching by Van der Verde, London" see autograph
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Van_der_Weyde

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This is awesome. Thank you for sharing it!

Great action photography

14 February 1937 was St Valentine's Day (and a Sunday).

Details of John Rowan (motor car invention) - www.belfastentries.com

Background history of the Casement Diaries - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Diaries

Entirely unplanned birthday connection today, but just discovered that Roger Casement was born on 1 September 1864!

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"though we suspect that title does not carry the meaning that would be applied today" . . . Are you sure?

The man who used a 185 carat diamond as a paperweight

The source of those riches of “the richest man in the world”

“The famous mines of Golconda were the major source of wealth for the Nizams, with the Kingdom of Hyderabad being the only supplier of diamonds for the global market in the 18th century.”

“He was given the title of "Faithful Ally of the British Crown" after World War One because of his financial contribution to the British Empire's war effort. Part of the reason behind his unique title of "His Exalted Highness" and other titles was due to the huge amounts of financial help that he provided the British amounting to nearly £25 million (£1,200,000,000 in 2025). (For example, No. 110 Squadron RAF's original complement of Airco DH.9A aircraft were Osman Ali's gift
……He also paid for a Royal Navy vessel, the N-class destroyer, HMAS Nizam commissioned in 1940 and transferred to the Royal Australian Navy.”

“After India's Independence, the Nizam attempted to declare his sovereignty over the state of Hyderabad, either as a protectorate of the British Empire or as a sovereign monarchy.
……In 1948, India invaded and annexed Hyderabad State, and the rule of the Nizam ended”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_Osman_Ali_Khan

“The Sunday Dispatch was a prominent British newspaper, published between 27 September 1801 and 18 June 1961.
It was ultimately discontinued due to its merger with the Sunday Express”

Would we even care today about the authenticity of the Black Diaries?
The real offence was their publication attempting to blacken his reputation

Vanished RAF Pilot Found Dead. According to witnesses at the inquest on the following Friday, he was found still strapped in and clutching a map. At the time of the crash there was low cloud.

This reminded me of the wrecked planes from the mid 20th century which can still be found in the Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) in South Wales - invariably the result of flying across the Bristol Channel in poor visibility and not realising there was high ground ahead. I knew they were there but despite many walks in the area of the wrecks I had never seen one - until I got myself a very early GPS device and looked up the locations. I'd previously walked past one of them (a Wellington bomber) several times, but never noticed it - the scraps of oxidised aluminium wreckage were the same colour as the local geology. Only when I knew I was at the exact location did I notice the tangled metal, as well as a small memorial and some landing gear. There were also green plastic rings which turned out to be all that was left of wreaths which had been left there.

Richard Craigmile Saved to the "That's my grandma!" gallery (for all relatives found in Flickr Commons photos)