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Pool players -- Oppenheimer, Poggenburg, Kurtz, Milburn, [and] Meyer (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 1 older comment, and then…
• swanq said:

  The number of balls suggests billiards rather than pool.

• swanq said:

  NYT of March 14, 1914 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00A14FA385A12738... provides more detail on some of the names: J Ferdinand Poggenburg Eugene L.Milburn Joseph Mayer (or Meyer?) Dr. W.E.Oppenheimer However, the March 16, 1914 NYT query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F05E5DB1E39E633A... and a close look at the writing on the negative, suggests that it should be Walter E. Uffenheimer, not Oppenheimer,

• swanq said:

  NYT of August 5, 1915 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70C16FF3B5816738... includes an E.B. Kurtz among a list of amateur billiards players, as well as Poggenburg and Uffenheimer.

• Richard Norton said:

  I have started an entry in Wikipedia for Poggenburg: Justus Ferdinand Poggenburg III (January 23, 1895 - December 1966) was an American billiards champion en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justus_Ferdinand_Poggenburg_III

• swanq said:

  Assuming this is taken at the March 1914 Class A amateur billiards tournament, there is a detailed description of the individual games in Sporting Life of March 21, 1914: www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1914/VO...

F. Moran (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• B-59 said:

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Welcome to British, Boulogne (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Wystan said:

  Bain's caption says "British," not "Brit."

• aware health said:

  And the banner says "English." A cafe and a billiard hall -- looks like they were all set.

• swanq said:

  From www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWbef.htm "In the first few weeks of the First World War the journalist Philip Gibbs accompanied the British Expeditionary Force to the Western Front: Along the roads of France and in the port of Boulogne, the B.E.F. was greeted with ecstasy by the French civilians who went mad at the sight of them. In every village girls threw flowers at them, ran alongside with gifts of fruit, and flung kisses at them in wayside stations when they leaned out of the railway trucks. they had come to help save France. Nothing in those first weeks was too good for them."