clapboard

Looks more like rough planking/clapboard than log... notice the framing where some planking is gone.

I believe that's a drying shed for tobacco

That's definitely downtown Dublin in Pennsylvania during rush hour! ;-)

Swordscookie I'm thinking Eastern Seaboard, but would kill to know for sure! What are the odds of us ever finding out? Invoking the power of Flickr... :)

I would agree which is why I jested about Pennsylvania! Seems right for the north eastern seaboard or the nothern mid-west. Given that the scene is so typical unless you could get some relative I doubt you will get a definitive location. That looks like a young lad in a dress with the couple and the two girls?

Swordscookie Definitely! 2 girls and a boy in the "family" group. Wondering if the two lads were also part of the family and were standing separately to show they were "young men" or if they were non-related farm hands?

Fascinating! And so sharp for those days! I love such old pictures; the fact that we'll probably never know the story behind these people at least allows you to make up your own story in your head... -- Seen on my Flickr home page. (?)

Rueben Charles "Rube" Warnes (1875-1961), Great Britain middleweight boxer (75kg) with Lynn Amateur Boxing Club ("ABC"). Rube won an Olympic Bronze medal at the 1908 Summer Olympic Games in London. [1] He went onto win five Amateur Boxing Association of England ("ABA") National titles (1899, 1901, 1903) with Lynn ABC and one each with Gainsford ABC (1907) and Surrey Commercial Docks ABC (1910). [2] Rube, along with other boxers from the ABA, competed at Madison Square Garden, May 19-20, 1911. [3] There is an additional LOC photo of Rube Warnes on Flickr here.

Thanks for the great links, Pixel Wrangler. We'll fill in his name the next time we update this record. The additional photo you cite shows the group of boxers and has a great link to a NYTimes archived article.

Taken same day and same place:

Hi there I am the great great Grandson of Rube Warnes, Im trying to gather as much information as possible about him, is there anything else you could tell me? Or where I could find out. Regards George

Keeping the tradition alive, Anthony Ogogo, Great Britain middleweight boxer (75kg) with the Triple A Amateur Boxing Club, Lowestoft, won an Olympic Bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London. [1]