alexanderhamilton

This is a photo from the 1911 International Aviation Meet held at the Nassau Boulevard Aerodrome near Garden City, Long Island. A veritable "who's who" of early aviators attended and flew at the event, see: www.collectair.com/moisantindex.html "Miss Moisant, Miss Quimby and Mlle. Dutrieu participated in the Nassau Boulevard meet in 1911, along with Lieut. H.H. Arnold, Liet. T. DeW. Milling, T.O.M. Sopwith, Earle Ovington, C.G. White, Eugene Ely, Lieut. Paul W. Beck, George Beatty, Lieut. T.G. Ellyson of Navy, Lee Hammond, H.N. Atwood, H.W. Walden, George Dyott, and J.A.D. McCurdy (Aeronautics, Sept., Oct., 1910; Jan., 1911; Oct., 1911)." The Library of Congress features a number of photos from the same event at their Flickr Commons photostream, here are a couple:

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The inscription says "Dr. Alexander Hamilton / Great Grandson of A. Hamilton /of Woodbury Conn."

rjones0856: Thanks for bringing our attention to the inscription on the negative. We'll add it to the source data next time we update.

From Page 1385 of Genealogical and family history of southern New York and the Hudson River Valley, Volume 3 1914 By Cuyler Reynolds books.google.com/books?id=iNIUAAAAYAAJ&lpg=RA1-PA1344... hamilton angelica livingston&pg=RA1-PA1385#v=onepage&q=alexander hamilton angelica livingston&f=false "Rev. Alexander Hamilton, D.D., born at Setauket, Long Island, New York, September 9, 1847, resides at Woodbury, Connecticut, where he is the rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. This is the same parish in which Dr. Samuel Seabury was elected the first bishop of the Episcopal Church in America. Having completed the course at the Theological Seminary, he was ordained in 1870. He is chaplain of the New York Society of the Cincinnati; member and former chaplain Society of Colonial Wars; chaplain of the Society of Foreign Wars; former chaplain of Veteran Corps, War of 1812; general chaplain Society of War of 1812; member of Sons of the Revolution; chaplain Sons of Veterans, Lafayette Camp, No. 140, New York; member of the Union Society of Civil War; member of St. Nicholas Society; member of the Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America; member of St. John's Lodge, No. 6, Connecticut, Free and Accepted Masons, also member of numerous historical societies." His father was Major-General Alexander Hamilton (Nov 15, 1815 - Dec 7, 1907), who was a son of John Church Hamilton (born August 22, 1792 - July 25, 1882), who was a son of "the" Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton { en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Schuyler_Hamilton }

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Alexander_Hamilton_(Columbia_University)
"An outdoor 1908 sculpture of Alexander Hamilton by William Ordway Partridge is installed outside Hamilton Hall on the Columbia University campus in Manhattan, New York, United States."
See also Foundry Father from 2007
magazine.columbia.edu/article/foundry-father

The statue was installed on May 27, 1908
See New-York tribune (New York [N.Y.]), May 7, 1908, P. 7
- www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1908-05-07/ed-1/?sp=7&...
"Gift of Columbia Alumni To Be Dedicated on South Field.
A bronze statue of Alexander Hamilton, of heroic size, by William Ordway Partridge. the New York sculptor, will be unveiled and dedicated In the court south of Hamilton Hall, on South Field, on the afternoon of commencement day of Columbia University, May 27."

Thanks swanq, we'll add some of this info to the catalog record.