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This photo was used in The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, February 23, 1913, SECTION FIVE, Image 65 with the caption "Robert Appleton is the head of the Robert Appleton Company, which has Just completed the publication of the monumental Catholic Cyclopedia. He is one of the governors of the New York Athletic Club and member of many other clubs and societies in New York, and is an enthusiastic motorist and golf player." (oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83045782/1913-02-23/ed-1/se...)

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The building in the back is New York Public Library, at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. Joseph H. Choate and William W. Appleton were both Trustees named in the first year of the New York Free Circulating Library. This photo may have been taken at the opening of NYPL in 1911.

Compare with this image in the set: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2162669255/

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Choate

Thank you all for the information on the NY Public Library and the two men in this photo. We will add some of it to the information when we update the database.

There's a memorial to Joseph Hodges Choate in Salem, Massachusetts, his birthplace, featuring an allegorical statue of Liberty by sculptor John Massey Rhind (1860-1936).

PRA Appleton was born in Hulme, Manchester on 8 June 1891 and a according to the 1891 Census His parents were James & Marthar Appleton who lived at 4 Mercer Street, Hulme at the time of the census they had two other children 1 boy and 1 girl and James Appleton was a commercial traveller

Daniel Appleton, Colonel and Commander of the New York Guard's Seventh Regiment from 1889 to 1916 Article in the NYT: THE ACHILLES OF THE NATIONAL GUARD.; Col. Daniel Appleton of the Seventh Regiment and His Deserved Popularity (query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F10F17FD3A5F1A...) See also: www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=20455169

Maneuvers of the National Guard of New York held at Camp Whitman, Fishkill Plains, New York, July 17th August 1st , 1915 .

Thanks for identifying Appleton and for connecting this and related photos up with the probable event. Although I haven't yet found this specific photo reproduced, I did find testimony that pictures of the proceedings were considered newsworthy in a New-York Tribune advertisement (July 23, 1915), seen via the historic American newspapers site, Chronicling America: chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1915-07-23/ed-... (lower right). We'll add information when we next update the description.

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