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I like how the photographer had included the street signs in the frame. Those signs must have looked very exotic...

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called VINTAGE COMMERCIAL AND MUNICIPAL VEHICLES, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

If I remember correctly, the message on the top of the bus was, "Ride the Surface Way".

Videoal, you are correct!

That's a pretty cool picture of the bus to New York.

The building in the back is New York Public Library, at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. Joseph H. Choate and William W. Appleton were both Trustees named in the first year of the New York Free Circulating Library. This photo may have been taken at the opening of NYPL in 1911.

Compare with this image in the set: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2162669255/

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Choate

Thank you all for the information on the NY Public Library and the two men in this photo. We will add some of it to the information when we update the database.

There's a memorial to Joseph Hodges Choate in Salem, Massachusetts, his birthplace, featuring an allegorical statue of Liberty by sculptor John Massey Rhind (1860-1936).

The Sign on the Door Theatre Republic, (12/19/1919 - circa. 5/1920) First Preview:Total Previews: Opening Date:Dec 19, 1919 Closing Date:May 1920Total Performances:187 Category: Play, Melodrama, Original, Broadway Description: A play in three acts Setting: A private supper room at the Cafe Mazarin, New York, the summer home of "Lafe" Regan in New Rochelle, and a room at the Ritz- a small apartment Hotel in the "Forties"

at 207 W. 42d Street, now known as the New Victory Theater. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Victory_Theater 2014 Street View: www.google.com/maps/place/209+W+42nd+St,+New+York,+NY+100...

cinematreasures.org/theaters/270

The Sign on the Door www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110088724