crain

Same women, same session, different pose:

Definately high fashion of the era !

As pennyrichardsca indicates with the other photo, these must be the wives of three democratic leaders: Robert Crain, who was chairman of the committee that raised the guarantee fund which landed the 1912 Democratic National Convention for Baltimore. Thomas Taggart of Indiana Norman E. Mack, New York Chairman of the Democratic National Committeeman. The date on the stamp is 6/1?/12 -- which is consistent with the date of the convention.

swang - I agree with you. I'm starting to tag the phhotos related to the 1912 convention as "1912 DNC" to keep track.

Thanks for bringing attention to date on the negative. We'll update the source data and reload the description.

Taken at the Democratic Convention, Baltimore, June 1912. Compare to the scanned illustration in query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9900E5D91E3CE6...

The version in the New York Times is from a Baltimore news service.




en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urey_Woodson
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Charles_Sullivan
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Edward_Mack
Edwin O. Wood
Robert Crain

Richard Arthur Norton: Thanks for providing us with the fuller names here. We'll add these names to the description next time we update.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Old men are beautiful, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Another Bain/LOC photo from the 1912 Baltimore Democratic Convention:

See www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2535981129/ where Harry Angstrom indicates that Crain is a Baltimore democrat. January 10, 1912, NYT, query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C04E0D8163CE633A... gives him a role in getting Baltimore as the location for the 1912 Democratic convention. He headed the "Baltimore boom" -- any ideas what "boom" means in this context? According to Wikipedia, "Robert Crain Highway is the designation given to the former alignment of U.S. Route 301 from Bowie, Maryland, USA, to Baltimore."

@ swang – Baltimore as well as Charles County, Maryland, experienced tremendous increases in population and commerce after the opening of the Southern Maryland Trunk Line in 1922 – later renamed the Robert Crain Highway after it's most ardent supporter. The changes in the economic development as a result of this highway, and other factors, have been called "transformational". Perhaps the use of the term in the article referred to the beginning of this boom. (?)