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I've seen that grandstand elsewhere amongst these pics. I'll have to look for it. Here it is: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3682649052/ Wystan thinks it's at the Long Branch Horse Show, and he is probably correct.

Link to Wystan comment indicates he thinks it is Piping Rock on Long Island.

James Mark Sullivan (1873-19201935), cousin of Tammany Hall's Tim Sullivan, was an Irish-born, Yale-educated lawyer and an American diplomat (briefly the minister to Santo Domingo) who (after leaving the State Department's employ) was arrested in Dublin in 1916 for aiding the Irish rebellion. See Maryanne Felter and Daniel Schultz, "James Mark Sullivan and the Film Company of Ireland," New Hibernia Review 8(2)(2004): 24-40, for a recent scholarly exploration of Sullivan's business interests.

I started a Wikipedia entry for him: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mark_Sullivan He died in 1935, not in 1920 as listed above. The State Department lists 1933, but his obit appears in 1935.

Thanks Richard Arthur Norton, I'll fix mine so the wrong date is not out there at all...

pennylrichardsca and Richard Arthur Norton: Thanks for the additional info. on Sullivan. We'll add his full name to the description next time we update the record!