coxswain

Rowing on Hudson River, New York, with Poughkeepsie Bridge in background.

Wystan: Thanks for the additional information. We'll add the names to our description next time we update the record.

This is crew, not swimming. Note the coxswain.

Most of these men appear to be much older than normal university age.

NYT of march 1, 1911, page 12
nyti.ms/43Yr5rC
Lists last names of likely crew members.
New York Tribune of June 26, 1910, page 8
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1910-06-26/ed-...
Provides initials for some of the oarsmen.
Harvard Crimson from 23 May 1912
www.thecrimson.com/article/1912/5/23/triangular-race-in-b...
Also provides some initials

The cox will be the small guy in the front center. H. B. Kimball could be the Henry Joseph Kimball described at history.nycourts.gov/biography/henry-j-kimball/
The photo is from much later, but plausible. The dates of his time at Cornell certainly match.

I’ve just found that Shorpy posted this photo and got plenty of comments, including some with identification help
www.shorpy.com/node/10457

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Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Massachusetts Photography, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

1911... the guy on the right is wearing a 1913 sweater.

Thanks for catching this, douglasleecoon. I'm having trouble reading the date on the negative. It's in reverse on the top right side. So what we can do is defer to our Bain default date span, "1910 to 1915" just to cover all possibilities.

The comments on a photo on the shorpy website says that college students in those days would wear the year of their class graduation on their athletic uniforms. That particular picture was of a swim team with 1911, 1912, & 1913 on the chests of men in the same photo. The man in this picture is probably from the class of 1913, but the date of 1911 is likely to be right.