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Dr. Lauro Severiano Muller, Foreign Minister of Brazil. Visited New York City in 1913.

NYT of June 17 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=950CE7DE1730E233A... lists members of the party. Lauro Muller (see pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauro_M%c3%bcller and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauro_M%c3%bcller ) is in the middle, above his name. Helio Lobo (see www.biblio.com.br/defaultz.asp?link=http://www.biblio.com... could be the younger man at the right.

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.

Bain's caption on the negative says "Roosevelt at Rio Janeiro."

Former President Theodore Roosevelt, at age 55, defeated in his 1912 attempt at election for a third term as the candidate of the Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party, in 1913 sailed for Brazil to embark on his life's last great adventure, exploring the uncharted rain forest via the River of Doubt. Marked by poor planning, inadequate equipment, and a surfeit of bad luck, the expedition was harrowing, to put it mildly, and TR nearly died (as in fact some in the party did) -- but ultimately in 1914 he and his son, Kermit, and others in the party made it back to the embrace of civilization. (And the River of Doubt now bears the name Rio Roosevelt.) Roosevelt lived to write a book about his ordeal, "Through the Brazilian Wilderness." The story has recently been updated and retold in a gripping bestseller (2005) by Candice Millard -- "The River of Doubt; Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey," a book that comes highly recommended by its many readers, myself included. Another Bain/LOC photo of Roosevelt in Rio Janeiro: A Bain/LOC photo of Mrs. Roosevelt in Rio:

Thanks for the information about the trip, Wystan. Next time we update the records for these images, we'll add the 1913 date.

To the left of TR is the doctor Oswaldo Cruz, important physician against the yellow fever in Brazil.