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William Caldwell Gorgas was Surgeon General & held rid Havana of yellow fever. www.encyclopedia.com/topic/William_Crawford_Gorgas.aspx#1...

Received honorary degree at Columbia on June 4, 1913, according to NYT the following day query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E01E0D81F3AE633A...

Can we usually see intelligence on people's face? Remember the movie Amadeus Mozart, the Antonio is in a party searching for a face looks like Morzat the most? Mozart do look different for his genius quality which is very rarely exist in human society. Mozart is an unusal special case. Most fine people can show the quality of their intensed training and intelligence by seeing their faces.

captainslack and swanq: Thanks for the info! This is indeed William Crawford Gorgas (1854-1920), honorary degree recipient at Columbia University's June 4, 1913 commencement. When we update the record, we will expand on the caption to include this information.

William C. Gorgas was a U. S. Army General, and a military surgeon who introduced mosquito eradication to eliminate Yellow Fever in Havana during the Spanish Amerian War, and later in the Panama Canal Zone, during construction of the canal. history.amedd.army.mil/surgeongenerals/W_Gorgas.html Bain's and LOC's captions to the above photo are incorrect: Gorgas was not a Professor; he wore the academic rig when he received an honorary degree from Columbia. A Bain/LOC photo of Gorgas with Mrs. Gorgas: Another photo was posed to Flickr on November 12, 2010:

Such beautiful light!

More Bain/LOC photos of Yale football spring practice:

This person appears to be John Ledyard Mitchell. Yale, class of 1914. He is not listed on the team for 1913. (1890-1971) As a note, his brother William Ledyard Mitchell (1881-1964) was an All-American Fullback at Yale in 1903 and one of the founders of Chrysler. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ledyard_Mitchell) The reason for the identification comes from the photo of Mitchell on page 419. Yale Banner 1913-14. Page 241 & 419 & 445. (archive.org/details/yalebanner19131914newh/page/240) www.findagrave.com/memorial/78999430/john-ledyard-mitchell

is it necessary to label the photo "Negro boy" surly "boy" will do or if needed to make reference to his race for historical context surly African American. just like to point out that i am not PC mad just thought this title was a little odd. after all this guy is probably alive wonder what he would think to being called "Negro boy"

I guess it must be the original title, or the agency caption as mentioned above. I don't see anything wrong in keeping that title, it reminds us of the mindset of some people in that time and it could even be an anti-racist statement.

I Like the photo but not the tittle.

yes but the title is part of the times the image was taken in
therefore the title itself has a historical context.

it might not be nice or acceptable context, but to change the title as given by the original photographer, changes history. Essentially whitewashing the past.

The titles are all drawn from the original descriptions of the photos - if you browse around on the Library of Congress's American Memory project you'll see a lot of outdated terms sometimes, but that's the way people talked back then. This is part of why they need help from people tagging pictures - we look for pictures using different words than the photographers or librarians back then would have used.