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Ignacy Jan Padereski, Polish composer and diplomat; his wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignacy_Jan_Paderewski That must be his second wife (the first died in 1881); her name was Helena Paderewska, before that Helena Górska, Baroness de Rosen. The couple came to the US to build support for Polish independence, and to give fundraising concerts. Helena died in Switzerland in 1974.

This is likely from April 15, 1915 "Ignace Jan Paderewski, the Polish pianist, arrived yesterday from London on the White Star liner Adriatic on his way to San Francisco to ask President Charles C. Moore of the Panama-Pacific Exposition to give one day for the benefit of the 10,000,000 homeless people in Poland who are facing death by starvation. His hair was longer and his face much sadder than when he last appeared in New York two years ago." query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D0CE5DF1338E633A...

Thanks for supplying the details and likely context. We can add some information when we next update the description.

See also

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Wells
"Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography, and autobiography, and even including two books on recreational war games. He is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called the "father of science fiction", along with Jules Verne and the publisher Hugo Gernsback."

We have seen him earlier in the Bain stream, in

He was in the U.S. in late 1921 to report on the Arms Congress in Washington, D.C. See, for example, chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86072054/1921-11-01/ed-... He left on the Adriatic on January 7, 1922, according to the New York Herald. January 06, 1922, Page 10, col 6 (top) chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045774/1922-01-06/ed-... See also the [New York] Evening World. January 07, 1922, Final Edition, page 3. chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1922-01-07/ed-... "H. G. Wells Talks of American Impressions on Eve of Leaving for Home, After Writing Most Remarkable Series of Articles on the Arms Conference."

swanq Great finds in Chronicling America on H.G. Wells. I'll update the record accordingly.

I love these aeroplane photos

this looks like Venice?

Harry Angstrom: It does look like this might be Venice, though it's quite indistinct. The campanile of St. Mark's and St. Mark's do appear to be the tower and domes visible in the background. Thanks for the comment!

"Good progress is being made with the hydro-aeroplane station which the Italian government is establishing in Venice. Commander Ginocchio will be in charge . . . . Six machines have been purchased in France for the station." -- Flight, November 30, 1912: www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1912/1912 - 1121.html