diplomats

See NYT of June 12, 1913 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9503E3D7103CE633A... and of June 17, 1913 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=950CE7DE1730E233A...

According to NYT of June 17, 1913 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=950CE7DE1730E233A... Muller arrived in New York on JJune 16 and stayed in the Knickerbocker Hotel. From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Times_Square, Six Times Square, also known as the Newsweek Building or Knickerbocker Building, is a building located at 1466 Broadway at the southeast corner of 42nd Street in New York City. This historic building opened in 1906 as the Knickerbocker Hotel. The building in the picture has Longacre Building above a door at the right, just behind the notice that reads "BWAY." A Longacre Building was once located at Forty-second Street and Broadway. See skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=56459 Could be same building as in digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?717484F -- not certain.

This is definitely the Longacre Bldg. , showing 42nd St. in the foreground. Across 42nd street is the Hotel Knickerbocker. In the left background is Broadway and the Times Bldg. Between the Longacre Bldg. and the Fitzgerald Bldg. on Broadway is the entrance to the George M. Cohan Theatre.

Amos Pinchot: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Pinchot Lady Johnstone made the news 1908 for her shocking behavor: smoking on a cruise liner! query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B01E5DB1F3EE233A...

Amos with his sister, a wife of a foreign dipolmat - children of lumber baron James W. Pinchot, a founder of the Conservation Movement - Amos, part of the "Bull Moose" in 1912, and aquaintance of President Theodore TEDDY Roosevelt - later labeled as a pacifist, frequent speaker, writer, and author - spoke against large military buildup, founded isolationist group that dissolved after US entered WWII - was also against the growing role of big business in national politcs - moralist - rumored to have unsuccessfully attempted suicide out of depression over WWII Lady Alan - AKA Antoinette Pinchot - society leader, reputedly entertained in London at the Ritz, Edwardian fashionable - see also: www.yourbrotherkings.com/?p=100

The entire series:

Joseph Hodges Choate (January 24, 1832 - 1917), was an American lawyer and diplomat. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Hodges_Choate

Thanks for your research Richard Norton. We'll fill in the caption and add some of the information to the record the next time we update.