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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…

More Bain/LOC photos of the roundbreaking ceremony for new subway, New York City, July 31, 1911: