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Try this URL for display of images... www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/?details=1 Just add ?details=1 or use the edit command on the Photostream when using Fred the new Flickr user interface....

I made a similar comment here www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/14709949112/ This image appears to be taken September 2, 1916, following Woodrow Wilson's notification that he was nominated as the Democratic candidate for President for the 1916 election. The photo was taken at the Shadow Lawn estate in New Jersey, which served as Wilson's summer White House. The house burned down in 1927. A photo from the event is seen here: The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]), 03 Sept. 1916. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. (chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1916-09-03/ed-...)

29 November 1910 is a Tuesday ...

Sir Hugh Lane was mentioned by the Duke in his speech at the inauguration. London Evening Standard - Wednesday 30 November 1910:

Subsequently his Royal Highness proceeded to the Transvaal School of Mines, where he inaugurated the Art Gallery. In his speech the Duke said that the inauguration marked an important era in the historyof Johannesburg. He commented on the value of the gallery to the aspiring artist or student and the uplifting effect artistically that it would have on the public. His Royal Highness concluded by remarking that Johannes- burg owed a debt of gratitude to Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Philips, Sir Hugh Lane, Mr. Otto Beit, Mr. Smuts, Councillor Hofmeyr, Mr. Neumann, Mr. Max Michaelis, and others for their personal efforts and their generous contributions.

" ... The initial collection was put together by Sir Hugh Lane, and exhibited in London in 1910 before being brought to South Africa..."
From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannesburg_Art_Gallery
- which also says the Gallery opened in 1915 ??

Edit - As you were; it was completed in 1915. Ooops!

There is a Lutyens-designed art gallery in Johannesburg, but per the article below, Lutyens first visited in November 1910, and thats the building completed in 1915, not the one pictured here.
www.lutyenstrust.org.uk/portfolio-item/johannesburg-art-g...

Ah, from the beachcomber's wiki page: The Johannesburg Art Gallery collection was opened to the public in 1910, before the gallery itself had been built, and was housed at the University of the Witwatersrand

The Guardia Rural (Rurales) Based on the Spanish Guardia Civil model of a mobile rural police force organized along military lines they have been described variously as "bandits," "Mexican version of the Mounties" or "the world's most picturesque policemen." They were disbanded in 1914.

LOC's Country Studies article has them being founded in 1915, but without attribution for that fact. lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+mx0110)

The modern Guardia Rural dates officially from 1926, but was an amalgamation of the local militias that sprang up in the wake of the Agrarian Land Decree of 1915. These fellows, mounted, with sabers and carbines and lots and lots of silver braid, definitely look more like the earlier Federal era Rurales. My only concern as to identification would be the uniform color. The Rurales uniforms had dove grey sombreros and bolo jackets, with tan leather chaps over gray trousers, red ties, red rank insignia, and lots of silver braid (if anybody wants to hand color this pic.) Do the jackets and sombreros seem of different color? Or just different weight? Of course, just because they were disbanded in 1914 doesn't mean they ceased to exist. I can definitely imagine this company of Rurales reforming under the auspices of Tamaulipas as a state guard force. In Los Rurales de México (www.scribd.com/doc/122062594/Los-rurales-de-Mexico-por-Jo...) Elias states that after disbandment, many Rurales were simply incorporated in the new army while others joined up with Pancho Villa or Zapata. (page 23) Francisco Medina, however, supports the State Guard possibility Soon, in various parts of the Mexican Republic, new groups were formed called "Civil Defense Corps" which battled all kinds of local banditry - these Corps were active as part of the "National Guard" under the state governments until 1947. (www.almomento.mx/la-negra-historia-de-la-policia-rural/, translation my own)

Or - never mind. The University of Texas Robert Runyon Collection has the same picture. " This troop organized in Matamoros and fought for the Victoriano Huerto regime against the Constitutionalists and was scattered in the battle for the city in 1913. " So . . . photographer = Robert Runyon, date = circa May/June 1913

Thanks for the link to the Runyon photos. Oddly, it seems like you can only search that collection from the LOC site, though the images reside on the utexas site. Here's a companion photo, shot at about the same time: runyon.lib.utexas.edu/r/RUN00000/RUN00000/RUN00011.JPG This photo looks like it was taken a little further up the street, with a Mexican cavalry group in the foreground and these rurales past them further down the street. runyon.lib.utexas.edu/r/RUN00000/RUN00000/RUN00013.JPG