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Russian Grand Duke. He visited NY in 1913. Killed in battle in 1915. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E05E0DF153BE233A...

No way! It was a rumor! He died in 1933. He fled Russia in 1920 before Bolsheviks entered Crimea. "He and his family, together with his mother-in-law, the Dowager Empress Maria Fyodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark), were rescued from the Crimea by British battleship HMS Marlborough in the quagmire of the 1917 Revolution, and thus they survived" - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duke_Alexander_Mikhailovich_o...

"GRAND DUKE NOT DEAD.; Russian Headquarters Also Deny Turkish Official Reports of Victories" -- New York Times, January 13, 1915. The New York Times reported the above four days after they initially reported the article, dated January 9, 1915, linked by Cynthia Wenslow. This photograph appears to be dated April, 1913, and accordingly may have been "in the news" as a result of Michaelovitch's announced 1913 visit to New York.

USS Powhatan (ID # 3013), 1917-1919. Originally S.S. Hamburg (German Passenger Liner, 1899). Later named Red Cross, Hudson and President Fillmore USS Powhatan, a 18,026-ton troop transport, was originally the German passenger steamer Hamburg, which had been built in 1899 at Stettin, Germany. Caught at New York when World War I began in August 1914, she was soon chartered by the American Red Cross to take medical personnel and supplies to Europe. Renamed Red Cross, she left New York in mid-September and called at Falmouth, England; Paulliac, France; and Rotterdam, The Netherlands, before recrossing the Atlantic in October with American refugees on board. She remained at New York for the next two and a half years. Also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Powhatan_(ID-3013) On the "Red Cross":

Thanks trialsanderrors for providing the link to more information about this ship. We'll add some of it to the record the next time we update.

Edited Wikipedia entry to reflect service as SS Red Cross.

Looks like the Woolworth Building in the background, no?

How shiny the cars are…