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1500 officers of the Salvation Army in America, assembled in New York City for a convention, were visited by General Bramwell Booth from England, the S.A.'s international head. While in New York, Bramwell Booth also visited his sister Eva, head of the United States' branch of the Army, and his brother, General Ballington Booth, the head of the Volunteers of America, an organization that had broken away from the Salvation Army, 17 years earlier. Bramwell Booth (1856-1929) was the second General of the Salvation Army, succeeding his father, William Booth, founder of the organization, who had died in 1912. Bramwell's sister, Evangeline (Eva) Booth (1865-1950), became the Army's fourth General (1934-39). A naturalized U. S. citizen, Eva was the Army's Commander of the United States from 1904 to 1934. These photos, dated November 26, 1913 (the day before Thanksgiving), show the parade of Salvation Army faithful who accompanied Bramwell to the docks that morning to see him off for England, aboard the "France," a ship of the French Line. New York Times story, November 25, 1913: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9C03E...

Wystan: Thanks for the information on the Booths. We'll update the record.

Given the year, would it be this George Washington?

Ocean Liner George Washington (1909-1917 - 25,570 gross tons) of Norddeutsche Lloyd (NDL) (North German Lloyd) www.simplonpc.co.uk/NDL2.html

Photo is marked 3/7/11. Washington Post from March 7, 1911 lists the George Washington arriving in Bremen, Germany from New York. New York Times from February 25, 1911 lists George Washington as sailing at 10am that morning. Guess is that the story ran on 3/7/1911, but the photo was taken on 2/25/1911.

Thanks! We'll fix the date information in the source data and reload the description.

SS George Washington was an ocean liner built in 1908 for the Bremen-based North German Lloyd and was named after George Washington, the first President of the United States. The ship was also known as USS George Washington (ID-3018) and USAT George Washington in service of the United States Navy and United States Army, respectively, during World War I. In the interwar period, she reverted to her original name of SS George Washington. During World War II, the ship was known as both USAT George Washington and, briefly, as USS Catlin (AP-19), in a short, second stint in the U.S. Navy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_George_Washington_(1908)

And that's surely a gorgeous old Dakota on the apron.

there used to be a great restaurant overlooking the tarmac while that was main terminal!

Wonderful old photo! Love the building and that airplane is classic.

Just an overall classic picture, beautiful "snapshot in time" !

I came up from Limerick a few times in the '50's on "educational tours" and part of our education was to be taken out there and to see the building which was considered 'state of the art' at that time! Internally it is still a very attractive building though it is hard to even see it today due to all the other buildings put up around it. If my memory serves me right I saw an Aer Linte Super Constellation there though some airplane buff might correct that for me???