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This should be August 3rd, 1911. Togo arrived from Liverpool on the Lusitania. It arrived late in the evening on Thursday, August 3rd, 1911, which would explain the reason for the night shot with no background scenery. New York Times on August 5th says that Togo went to bed in his room at Hotel Knickerbocker at 2am Friday, August 4th, 1911. Full schedule of Togo's tour of the US is in an August 2nd, 1911 NYTimes article.

Another Bain/LOC photo of the after-dark (post-midnight) reception of Admiral Togo in New York. Togo actually disembarked after midnight, on the morning of August 4, 1911: Story of Admiral Togo's reception in The New York Times, August 4, 1911: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C05EEDE1531E2...

Same event as this one. August 15, 1911.

wow...........love these old photos.........thanks for making them available on Flickr. Robert L. Huffstutter

These look like early Peerless automobiles, ca. 1909. The underlined name in handwritten script is just visible on the hubcaps of both vehicles and on a maker's plate on the chassis of the leading car (just behind the acetylene generator on the running board).

@technogeo: Good eyes!

Thanks, Rob! They're beautiful cars. Gigantic acetylene headlights, smooth tread tires in front, patterned tread in the rear. The rear tires don't match on the car in the foreground (lic. plate no. 41475). You can seem them in the other photo. www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163533044/ It's not what you'd expect on an expensive car used to chauffeur dignitaries around New York. I bet Togo noticed.

An article about this visit can be found in the New York Times Archives, printed the day after on Sunday, August 13, 1911. (pdf format)

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