admiralcharlesjbadger

Can someone please identify this building for me? Is it New York City Hall?

Looks like city hall to me. cf. www.flickr.com/photos/chrisinphilly5448/493026437/sizes/o/

parkermulligan - thanks. This building , or parts of it, feature as background to plenty of other scenes in the Bain collection. I makes sense that City Hall would feature on many offcial occasions or receptions.

Thanks for the good question, lifeasdaddy and thanks to parkermulligan for the identification of this building. As lifeasdaddy points out, City Hall appears in other Bain images such as this one: memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ggbain/14100/14188v.jpg We will add the location to the source data and reload the description.

One of the examples I'm thinking of is this: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3121126254/in/p...

The caption written on the photograph appears to read: MAINE MON'T COM'EE ON "WYOMING" W.R.HEARS - J.W. KELLER R.A.C. SMITH ADM BADGER GEN J AS. WILSON The Maine National Monument Committee was comprised of James Grant Wilson - Chairman William R. Hearst George F. Shrady John W. Keller J. Edward Simmons According to the inscription on the monument itself. (ref. www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/monuments/monument_info... )

lifeasdaddy: Thank you for the additional details regarding this image. We will look into expanding the descriptive information when we update the source record.

Commander Quevedo was representing Cuba at the dedication of the Maine Monument. He commanded the vessel "Cuba"

Cynthia Wenslow: Thank you for the additional information on Comm. Quevedo! We've also learned more about Adm. Badger, so the descriptive information can be expanded when we update our source record.

Another Bain/LOC photo of Admiral Badger and Commander Quevedo: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3390547430/in/p...

Part of the festivities for the dedication of the Maine Monument in Central Park.