ambassadors

This is Henry Van Dyke, clergyman, author and professor. He was also US Minister to the Netherlands during WWI so this probably on one of his trips to or from the Netherlands. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_van_Dyke The man on the far right is his son Tertius Van Dyke. (note his name is mispelled) Mrs. Hamilton Gibson is his daughter, Brooke. I haven't figured out who G.R. McLean is yet.

Keep at it, j3net, you're doing fine. We'll fill in and correct some of the names in the caption the next time we update the record. Please let us know when you learn more about G.R. McLean.

I found him. He must be Guy Richards McLane [note spelling], a stockbroker who was married to Dorothea Van Dyke, another daughter of Henry Van Dyke. Dorothea died in childbirth in 1912 and her husband and father founded "Dorothea's House" in Princeton in her memory. www.dorotheashouse.org/1913.html

There's one other misspelling, according to this genealogy www.vandyke-smith-family.com/vandyke-o/p30.htm#i2871 the other daughter's name should be Paula, not Faula.

Great research j3net, thank you so much for your contributions. We'll make the corrections and add some of the information to the record the next time we update.

Oscar Solomon Straus - Jewish statesman and diplomat to the Middle East, influential in the late 1880s to 1890s as US Minister in Turkey. Later U.S. Sec. of Commerce & Labor in 1900s under President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt - Served one year again in Turkey, as Ambassador, under President Taft. Wrote his autobiography in 1922, "Under Four Administrations: From Cleveland to Taft." His older brother, Isidor Straus and his wife were among the victims in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.

The photo was taken at a reception for New York Bull Moose candidate for Governor Oscar Straus and Mrs. Straus, held at the Port Washington, Long Island, home of Bull Moose congressional candidate -- and former Congressman -- Bourke Cockran, on September 28, 1912 -- a kick-off event for the fall campaign of the Nassau County Bull Moose (Progressive) Party. Story in The New York Times, September 29, 1912: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F04EFD9113AE6... Other Bain/LOC photos of the Lawn Fete for Oscar Straus:

LOC -- Mr. Cockran's name is misspelled in your title, and in Bain's as well.

James Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth[a] GCMG, CB, PC (17 August 1876 – 15 December 1951) was a British politician and diplomat as well as the first Secretary-General of the League of Nations (LN) (1920–1933). After his time with the League of Nations he became British ambassador to Rome (1933–1939) and later, chief adviser on foreign publicity in the Ministry of Information (1939–1940). In 1946 he became deputy leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Lords. Drummond died of cancer on 15 December 1951 at his home in Sussex. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Drummond,_7th_Earl_of_Perth

Thank you for the added information.