charlesbadger

Can someone please identify this building for me? Is it New York City Hall?

Looks like city hall to me. cf. www.flickr.com/photos/chrisinphilly5448/493026437/sizes/o/

parkermulligan - thanks. This building , or parts of it, feature as background to plenty of other scenes in the Bain collection. I makes sense that City Hall would feature on many offcial occasions or receptions.

Thanks for the good question, lifeasdaddy and thanks to parkermulligan for the identification of this building. As lifeasdaddy points out, City Hall appears in other Bain images such as this one: memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ggbain/14100/14188v.jpg We will add the location to the source data and reload the description.

One of the examples I'm thinking of is this: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3121126254/in/p...

Commander Quevedo was representing Cuba at the dedication of the Maine Monument. He commanded the vessel "Cuba"

Cynthia Wenslow: Thank you for the additional information on Comm. Quevedo! We've also learned more about Adm. Badger, so the descriptive information can be expanded when we update our source record.

Another Bain/LOC photo of Admiral Badger and Commander Quevedo: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3390547430/in/p...

That will be July 1914 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Jack_Fletcher

Retired at last This is the change of command ceremony aboard USS Wyoming (BB-32) at the Brooklyn Navy Yard (New York Naval Shipyard - NYNSY) as Admiral Frank Friday Fletcher (uncle of WWII-era Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher) took command of the Atlantic Fleet on September 16, 1914. See: www.navsource.org/archives/01/32a.htm and NH 95153 - Atlantic Fleet change of command ceremonies, on board USS Wyoming, 1914.

Retired at last and TVL 1970: Thanks for providing the context for this image, and more complete information on Adm. Fletcher. (And thank you for linking to sources!) We will add more details to this record when we update.