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Jim Crow at Play: Race, Manliness, and the Color Line in American Sports, 1876-1916, a dissertation by Gregory Bond at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, includes some info on Cyrus Spottswood Shippen. The same year this photo was taken he was the second African-American to compete in the US Open, alongside his brother John who had been the first (in just the second US Open, in 1896). According to Bond, Cyrus Shippen went on to be "a long-time teacher at Washington, DC's famed Dunbar High School where he started a golf team". (Bond's discussion of the Shippens and the color line in the USGA is mostly on pp. 217-220.) Cyrus is also discussed a bit in this interview with Hanno Shippen Smith, grandson of John Shippen (which I think would make him grand-nephew of Cyrus?).

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/32573662@N00] This is pretty amazing, severinus. Really enjoyed that interview. Thank you for adding this information! Susannah Smithsonian Institution Archives

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fion%C3%A1n_Lynch www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie/reels/bmh/BMH.WS0192.pdf#p... wdc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/easter/id/62/

At home in Kerry aged 12 in the 1901 census At Teacher training college in 1911

hope they read the small print.

Born in Cahersiveen Co Kerry and far better known as Fionán Lynch. He was elected an MP and later a TD. He was a Minister in two departments of the Cumann na nGaedhael Government. He then practiced as a Barrister and remained in very friendly terms with both sides of the political divide. There is a large article on him in Wikipedia - which can always be relied on with passage of time after death.

This is dated 1916-1920, and the postcard itself obviously is after 1916, but the photo is of Lynch qualifying as a National Teacher in 1911 aged 22.

TAFT!!

Taft attended a reception at City College in New York for Dr Alexis Carrel, who had won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1912. The event took place on on Nov 16, 1912. The event was hosted by the President of the City College of New York Dr. John H. Finley. Perhaps the caption should read Dr. Finley not "D.R. Finley". Finley was the 3rd President of City College of NY, serving as President 1903 to 1913. Article from NYTimes describing the event honoring Dr. Carrel: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B07E5DE1E3AE633A... Article from Wikipedia about City College, mentioning its Presidents: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_College_of_New_York Article about Nobel Prize winner and honoree: Dr. Alexis Carrel (is he in the photo perhaps?) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_Carrel

This article from NYT next day has photo from the big reception with caption identifying Dr. Carrel and also President Finley query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F0DE6DE1E3AE633A... and here is photo of Dr. Carrel, from this Flicker/LOC set: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2405656016/in/p...

It does look as though it ought to be "Dr." Finley. Thanks for noting it and for the clues as to the likely event. We'll add the subject note!