charlesjbadger

Rear Admiral Charles Johnson Badger: www.arlingtoncemetery.net/cjbadger.htm

Commander Quevedo captained the cuban gunboat CUBA, which was in New York for the opening of the Maine Monument, He was also a Lieutenant colonel in the Cuban Army. Here is the New York Times article of Friday May 30, 1913 which sets out in detail the program of commemmoration: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E0DEFDB143FE633A...

captainslack and lifeasdaddy: Thanks for the additional information on the men in this photograph. When we update the record, we will expand the descriptive details.

Another Bain/LOC photo of Badger and Quevedo: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3390542386/in/p....

Thank you Wystan. I have now corrected my error by editing my comment above.

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.

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...