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Maneuvers of the National Guard of New York held at Camp Whitman, Fishkill Plains, New York, July 17th -August 1st , 1915 .

Thanks for connecting this and related photos up with the probable event. Although I haven't yet found this specific photo reproduced, I did find testimony that pictures of the proceedings were considered newsworthy in a New-York Tribune advertisement (July 23, 1915), seen via the historic American newspapers site, Chronicling America: chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1915-07-23/ed-... (lower right). We'll add information when we next update the description.

Miss Elizabeth Simon, a cook in the Tatum household, testified in a society divorce case involving Jack Ottman, Dr. John C. Tatum and Mrs. Mary Jane Tatum, of Great Neck LI, in January 1915.

Thank you for the information. We may add it to the record.

Why do I think that the cat is not long for this world? Lunch, perhaps?

The sign above and to left of cooky shows ferry prices in cents. Given the age of the photo that puts it outside Australia, New Zealand, or any of our near neighbours because we and they had pounds, shillings and pence before 1966. Most likely would be USA or Canada, and we can see some snow on the background mountain. At the bottom of the sign are the words "Douglas" and "Juneau", so this is either at Juneau, Alaska or Douglas Alaska or within a ferry's journey distance of those 2 places. Having a bit of a look at online images, I see that Juneau was a very busy port in first half of 20th century, and the City of Douglas on Douglas Island was somewhat less busy. Not much development in the background of this photo, so more likely to be Douglas than Juneau. In 1935 the Juneau to Douglas bridge opened, making ferry travel less of a big thing. Perhaps that dates this photo image to before 1935, perhaps not.

BobMeade Nice work, one can also see the word Treadwell and there was a mine of that name operating in Alaska between 1881 and 1922. This is an extract from Wiki: "The Treadwell gold mine was on the north side of Douglas Island, .5-mile (0.80 km) east of downtown Douglas and southeast of downtown Juneau, owned and operated by John Treadwell." That pillar would be called a mooring post by most boat people:-)

Swordscookie BobMeade Fascinating thanks! - well spotted re the sign. This site has a little info on the ferry stops in that area.

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