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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

Adam Beck (1857-1925) was a Canadian politician and head of the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario; his wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Beck His grave: www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7882413 His wife was the former Lilian Ottaway (1878-1921) of Hamilton, posthumous only child of an English football legend, Cuthbert Ottaway: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuthbert_Ottaway She was an expert equestrian, and played tennis and lawn bowling as well; one site says she was the first woman to judge the National Horse Show in New York; she was inducted into the London (ONT) Sports Hall of Fame just this year: blogs.canoe.ca/brandnewblog/general/lilian-ottaway-beck-l... Her grave: www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=39449581 They had a daughter, Marion Auria Beck (1904-1944).

Her appointment to judge the 1915 show was attacked in an anonymous letter. This account discusses that as well as her qualifications: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9500EFDA1239E333A... He was, in 1915, advising the Canadian government on its military needs for horses, and visited the Western Front, leaving New York via the White Star Liner, Adriatic, in late April. His interesting account of his trip and what he saw of trench warfare at the time, is reported in the New York Times of May 25, 1915. As Lady Beck is holding a White Star Lines document in this photo, perhaps her ticket, this was likely taken aboard the Adriatic as they left New York. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A03E3DB1338E633A...

Thanks pennylrichardsca and artolog for the research on this couple. We will add some of it to the record when we update.

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.