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www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai003264496/ James Curry 1911 Baker and confectioner House 21 Castle Street Was Also There in 1901

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I see the car has a chauffeur.

DannyM8 That's great, Danny, as it's not possible to tell from the photo that Curries at no. 4 Castle Street is a bakery/confectionery. Dating's good too - I think this is quite a late Lawrence photo. And the Curries were Congregationalists. Don't think we've come across too many of them up to now.

One of Quite a few Bain pictures, of Hioki, who in 1915 was Japan's Minister to China and led contentious negotiations over territorial and other issues.

Probably taken in front of the Japanese legation building in Beijing:

grace!

New York Times headline, 2 January 1915: "Woman Taxi Driver Invades Broadway; New York's First Feminine Chauffeur Starts Business on New Year's Day.; Men Rivals are Friendly; She Wears a Leopard-Skin Hat and Stole--Gets Big Tip from Initial Fare." Story says of the rest of her ensemble: Even before it was een that the driver was wearing a skirt, her appearance attracted attention. She wore on her head a huge round hat of leopard skin, and around her neck and over her shoulders the yellow and black spotted pelt of the same animal...She had on a brown skirt that came down just below the tops of her high tan boots, and a brown jacket. Her forearms were lost in black leather gloves." Wilma K. Russey had a chauffeur's license, and was employed as a mechanic by Dalton's Garage at 354 W. 50th St. She's mentioned in this 1997 MA thesis, Kimberly Berry, "The Experience and Expression of Gender among Women Taxi Drivers": www.taxi-library.org/nolady.htm She also turns up in Virginia Scharff, Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age (UNM Press 1999): 85.

Nice photo of a woman taxi driver.....

The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, January 24, 1915, SECTION SEVEN, Image 74 printed this photo with the caption: "New York has a chauffeuse. She is Wilma K. Russey and she is the first woman to be licensed as a cab driver in the big city. Miss Russey was once an aerial worker in a circus and on the vaudeville circuit. She is thoroughly acquainted with the mechanics of the car and looks after her own maachine. She says she is not going to take tips - a fact which should make her automobile popular." oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83045782/1915-01-24/ed-1/se...

B-59: Thanks! We will include more information about Russey next time we update the description.

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