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Perhaps the John B. Foster who was secretary to the New York Giants from 1912 to 1919. See query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E05EED9123BEE32A... (NYT article of Dec 15, 1919). There is a captioned photo in www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/BBM/1914/bbm4d.pdf of National League club owners that shows Foster (as well as Harry Hampstead, the President of the Giants). I could believe it is the same person. If so, he was previously editor of Spalding's Official Baseball Guide. There are pictures at memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=spalding&fileNam... and memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=spalding&fileNam... I'm pretty certain the last one is of the man pictured here.

John Buckingham Foster (1863 - 1941) (according to www.baseball-fever.com/showthread.php?57538-Meet-The-Spor...) Another photo of him is in The Oklahoma miner., May 01, 1913, Image 6 (chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn95063969/1913-05-01/ed-...).

John Buckingham Foster (1863-1941) www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41110136

I thought Sam Hood died in 1953? acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemdetailpaged.aspx?itemid=395018

Good point Beachcomber. It's from the Hood collection - obviously not actually taken by Sam. I've amended the thoughtless attribution above!

Caption Contest ? HE - "Miss Librarian, what clever fingers you have!" SHE [blushing] - "Why thank you Mr Reader. It is from years of fiddling in my drawers."

The State Libvrary also holds the collection of Ted Hood, Sam Hood's son, and in this case the photographer would probably be Ted Hood, assuming the date is correct (and it is not always possible to know this with many photographic collections)

@beachcomber scandalous! :)

Emory Roy Buckner (1877-1941) was a noted attorney. An Iowa native and University of Nebraska alumnus, he graduated from Harvard Law School in 1907. Working at public agencies and private firms in New York City, he rapidly gained a reputation as one of the city's top trial lawyers. From 1925 to 1927 he served as US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, prosecuting a number of notable cases. This photo might date from 1912, when Buckner was named counsel of the Aldermanic committee then investigating police corruption in New York City. See this New York Times article of August 16, 1912.

I think I see 12/29/13 in reverse on the negative (top right). The NYT on that date, query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9907EFD7113CE633A... suggests he was being considered for Police Commissioner.

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

Can you imagine that spinning at 70 ~180 r.p.m. ?

I thought it was Mickey Mouse or Чебурашка.

That is a huge propeller !!

WOW! That is HUGE!

Great photo, i have a fear of Huge things this scares me ! :| Lol