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Baron Emile de Cartier de Marchienne (1871-1946) See www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp50554/baron-em... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile_de_Cartier_de_Marchienne "Baron Emile-Ernest de Cartier de Marchienne (born 30 November 1871 in Schaerbeek, Belgium, died 10 May 1946 in London, United Kingdom) was a Belgian diplomat. Emile de Cartier de Marchienne was Belgian Minister in the United States, China, the United Kingdom, Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic." From 1917 to 1927 he was Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in the USA.

His wife is the former Marie Dow. See the New-York Tribune. March 21, 1920, Page 7, Image 85, column 7 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1920-03-21/ed-... "Baron Emile de Cartier de Marchienne is the first Belgian Ambassador to this country, the post having been raised from a legation to an embassy shortly before his appointment in 1919. He married in Paris July 16, 1919, Mrs. Hamilton Wilkes Cary, of New York. Baroness de Cartier de Marchienne was Miss Marie B. Dow, of Boston. She has now made her third marital adventure. Her first husband was Elihu B. Frost, president of the Submarine Boat Corporation, from whom she was separated in 1909 and divorced in December of that year at Reno. January 1, 1910, she was married to Hamilton Wilkes Cary, of New York, well known socially and on the turf. He died February 15, 1917, at Palm Beach, and his widow went abroad the following winter to do relief work in France and Belgium. She first met Baron de Cartier de Marchienne during the peace conference in Paris."

The New York Times July 12, 1923 timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1923/07/12/10510703... lists notable passengers on several liners that sailed for Europe. Baron de Cartier, the Belgian Ambassador to the United States and his wife sailed on the Belgenland.

swanq Thanks for the biographical information on Baron de Cartier and his wife. We will update the record accordingly!

"Marquess Ōkuma Shigenobu (大隈 重信?, 11 March 1838 – 10 January 1922); was a Japanese politician in the Empire of Japan and the 8th (30 June 1898 – 8 November 1898) and 17th (16 April 1914 – 9 October 1916) Prime Minister of Japan. Ōkuma was also an early advocate of Western science and culture in Japan, and founder of Waseda University."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Ckuma_Shigenobu

Other photos of him:

"Viscount Ishii Kikujirō (石井 菊次郎?, April 24, 1866 – May 25, 1945), was a Japanese diplomat and cabinet minister in Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa period Japan. He served as Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Empire of Japan between 1915 and 1916."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishii_Kikujir%C5%8D

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Thanks for the additional information B-59. We will add their full names to the catalog record.

Shigeto Dewa (1856-1930): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewa_Shiget%C5%8D

See notes on Seizo Kobayashi under a Bain photo taken at same sitting as this one:

He came to New York on 2/19/15: "Admiral Baron Shigetoo Dewa, Naval Counselor to the Japanese Emperor, who came to this country to represent the Emperor at the opening of the Panama Canal and of the Panama-Pacific Exposition, arrived at the Astor from Washington yesterday, accompanied by his aides, Commander Seizo Kobayashi and Lieut. Commander Yoshitake Uyeda. " query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E04E2DD1238E633A... An amusing episode on his visit happened when officials in Buffalo, New York, misreading a telegram abut arrangements for his arrival, mistakenly planned a large celebration for Admiral Dewey: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E00E5D81E3EE733A...