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makes me think of Mutchilba between Mareeba and Dimbulah

Typo in title and text: Sheppard s/b Shepard

Mr. & Mrs. Shepard are attending a polo match at Meadow Brook Field. The Newport Cup, effectively the polo championship of the world, was played there on June 14, 1913. America defeated England. From the New York Times of the following day: " Mr. and Mrs. Finley J. Shepard (Miss Helen Gould) also paid their first visit to Meadow Brook. After they had run the gauntlet of cameras, they sat with Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Gould in a grandstand box. Mrs. Shepard wore a blue poplin dress topped with a blush straw hat which had a single red rose." There were many other society types there whom were fully described in the article: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9D05E... I believe that the listing of society attendees will help to match up with other photographs taken on the same day.

Pixel Wrangler: Thanks for the heads up on the typo in the caption. lifeasdaddy: Thank you for the extensive description from the New York Times! It was very helpful for confirming the identity of Mrs. Shepard. We will update the description to include more complete names as well as add more information about the polo match they are attending.

I started an entry for him in Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finley_Johnson_Shepard I started her biography in 2005: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Miller_Gould en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meadowbrook_Polo_Club

Chandler Hale was an Assistant Secretary of State. "Virbeck" should have correct spelling "Verbeck" query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E0DEFDF123AE6...

August 4, 1911 per NY Times "Last night he wore a light gray overcoat, a black suit, black derby and patent leather shoe" -Togo "Those in the party that went on board the Lusitania to welcome Admiral Togo were Third Assistant Secretary of State Chandler Hale and Capt. Templin M. Potts, U.S.N, representing the United States Government; Major Gen. Frederick D. Grant, commanding the Easter Division of the Army on Governors Island; Commander Hiraga, the Japanese Naval Attache in Washington; Mr. Hanihara, the First Secretary of the Japanese Embassy; Adjutant Gen. William Verbeck of the New York National Guard, who represented the State of New York, and Gen. Nelson H. Henry, the Surveyor of the Port." query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C05EEDE1531E2...

Ck tags for other photos from Togo's visit to the U.S.

Another Bain/LOC photo of the after-dark reception of Admiral Togo in New York. (Togo actually disembarked in New York after midnight, on the morning of August 4, 1911; the photographer may have been dozing -- his camera suffered a jolt during the exposure:

LOC -- your misspelling of Verbeck in the title has not been emended. The error appears to have originated with Bain.