charlesjbadger

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...

Part of the festivities for the dedication of the Maine Monument in Central Park.

LOC: Bain's photo caption gives each man his rank (abbreviated).

Wystan: Thanks for pointing out the additional information. Admiral Frank F. Fletcher and Admiral Charles J. Badger are depicted here on the USS Wyoming as Fletcher took over command from Badger of the Atlantic fleet in September 1914. We will add all of these details to the record when we update.

The third officer, pictured but not identified in the caption, is Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, aide for operations to Secretary Daniels of the Navy.