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Looks like Bo Sweeney. I started a Wikipedia entry for him: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Sweeney

Yup, Bo Sweeney was assistant Secretary of the Interior from 1914, native of Missouri, resident of Seattle. He died 1917, from heart problems.

It sure does appear to be Bo Sweeney. Thanks to both of you.

Another photo by CLINEDINST in the Bain/LOC series:

Bo Sweeney married the former Lillian E. Reeves (1880-1929) on February 2, 1898. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Reeves of Trinidad, Colorado.[1]

Bo Sweeney (1862-1917) was a lawyer, and a state representative (D) in Colorado, before moving to Seattle. [2]

A photo of Mrs. Sweeney is in the Bain / LOC Collection on Flickr:



 
Information cited in this comment does not comport with the Wikipedia reference given in the comments.

That's Mae Ella Nolan (1886-1973) of San Francisco, whose husband John Ignatius Nolan (1874-1822) was a labor leader and Congressman. After he died, she took over his seat in Congress. She was the first woman elected to Congress from California, first woman to chair a Congressional committee, first woman to win a special election for Congress, first widow to fill her husband's seat in Congress. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_Nolan en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_I._Nolan

Her entry in the Biographical Directory of Congress bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000125 This picture is probably in connection with her husband's election to Congress in 1913. She married him shortly after his election, according to them more detailed Congressional biography: womenincongress.house.gov/member-profiles/profile.html?in...

pennylrichardsca and artolog: thank you for the additional information on Mrs. Nolan. We will update the description data to include the full name.

Should be "K. F. Shah", as he appears several other times in the Bain Collection. I am having difficulty finding any non-Bain biographical sources on him, though.

Correct: should be Shah. From A Chinese student publication from 1914: He was a foreign minister from China. Earlier a student at Columbia University. Arrived in New York on his way to Washington DC, with his wife, five children and sixteen servants.

NYT of April 6, 1914 select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50712FE3F5A1273... "K. F. Shah, the first Minister to Washington of the new Chinese Republic, arrived yesterday on the HamburgAmerican liner Kaiserin Auguste Victoria with a retinue of eleven persons, besides his wife and four children."

He is Kai Fu Shah (Xia Xiefu), and had been China's Consul General in New York from 1903 to 1908. During that period, he was mentioned regularly in the New York newspapers. In 1914, he arrived in Washington, via New York, as the first envoy to the U.S. of the newly recognized Chinese Republic, and this seems to be the press photo opportunity of April 14, 1914 on the occasion (in Washington) of the presentation of his credentials as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chinese Legation, to the State Department. www.state.gov/s/cpr/91588.htm There are multiple photos from this event in the LOC"s Harris & Ewing collection: www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=kai%20fu%20shah This shot was taken by the Clinedinst Studio of Washington, D.C., a prominent studio so ubiquitous in its Federal Government portraits and subjects that it was sometimes referred to as the Court Photographer of Washington. 19thcenturybaltimore.wordpress.com/2010/07/06/barnett-m-c...

bior, dhelling01, swanq, and artolog: Thanks for providing us with correct information for Shah. We will correct our data next time we update.