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One hypothesis is that this an ambassador to the United States (since Harris & Ewing mainly worked in Washington, DC) in his diplomatic uniform, having his portrait painted. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_uniform See www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/mamoru-shigemitsu-t... for a Japanese ambassador with a similar hat and embroidered coat. See www.bidd.org.rs/diplomatic-consular-suits-in-the-19th-and... for Serbian diplomatic uniforms. The first photo has a uniform that is quite similar to this one in its embroidery.

Could this be en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Pitamic who served as the ambassador of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia to the United States between 1929 and 1935? He is listed in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ambassadors_of_Serbia_to_th...

That looks like a dead end. The Evening Star. March 19, 1933, Page 8 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1933-03-19/ed-... has a photo of Pitamic in his diplomatic uniform and the embroidery close to the collar is not the same.

I think I've found the right ambassador. See www.pilsudski.org.uk/en/aktualnosci.php?news=244&wid=12 Tytus Filipowicz en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tytus_Filipowicz It looks as though he was the ambassador from Poland to the United States from 1929 to 1932. See also www.biogramy.pl/a/biografia/tytus-filipowicz-dyplomata#photo for some photos, including www.biogramy.pl/a/foto/zlozenie-listow-uwierzytelniajacyc... which has him in the same outfit as he wore for the portrait in the H&E photo

swanq Yup, that's your man I'd say. Well found. You now know more about ambassadors to the United States than you ever thought you would 😂

I think he was German ambassador to the U.S. and Mexico (1908-17), among other things. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Heinrich_von_Bernstorff#Amba...

I don't understand why the english Wikipedia entry of von Bernsdorff says that he was the German ambassador to the United States AND Mexico. It would be hard to understand that there was only one ambassador to both rather important countries. The german entry of von Bernstorff doesn't mention Mexico at all (only the U.S.). According to the Wikipedia list of German ambassadors to Mexico, the ambassadors there were Carl Gottlieb Bünz, Paul von Hintze and Heinrich von Eckardt at that time. So this cannot be true.

NYT of September 11, 1915 (date written on negative) select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30716F83A5C1373... indicates that at the time, there was a concern about the Germans and Austrians "conspiring to cripple munitions factories" in the U.S., including causing disturbances at Charles M. Schwab's Bethlehem Steel. [Schwab and his wife both have pictures in this batch.] The Austrian ambassador had been asked to leave and this piece suggested that Bernstorff might suffer the same fate and that other staff of the German embassy certainly would. The article mentions that both the Austrian ambassador, Dumba and Schwab were at the St. Regis hotel, that Dumba and Bernstorff had dined at the Ritz-Carlton recently, and Bernstorff visited Dumba at the St. Regis. Clearly journalists were staked out outside the hotels. Presumably this picture was taken at some point during this affair.

B-59 You are correct. I have changed the Wikipedia entry to reflect this.

The Sunday Oregonian, August 19, 1917, SECTION FIVE, Image 69 printed a cropped version of this photo with the caption: "M. Kurupensky is the new Ambassador to Japan from Russia." oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83045782/1917-08-19/ed-1/se...

Thanks for this information B-59. We'll add some of the information to the record the next time we update.

The Russian ambassador to Japan in 1917 was Vasily Nikolaevich Krupensky (1868-1945) He was ambassador from 1916-1921. Krupensky is the modern transliteration and is more accurate to the original Russian Крупенский than Kurupensky, used by Bain. ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B...

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The website of THE EMBASSY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION TO JAPAN gives his name as Krupensky Vasily Nikolaevich as well, but according to that he was ambassador in 1916 and 1917 only, s. www.russia-emb.jp/english/embassy/history/index.html