firstladies

7 photos tagged firstladies, from 4 members of Flickr Commons.

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1912

2013

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Criz Stoddard said:
Visitors to this photo page are encouraged to comment on this image here and then add their research/insights/comments about this image to the Inauguration project at the Flickr Commons group. Thanks!
Lú_ said:
This image has been used in the indicommons.org "across the Commons" post Inaugurations.
Isabel said:
Nice piece of history, I remember the shoulder pads

Steep Spark said:
Oscar Solomon Straus - Jewish statesman and diplomat to the Middle East, influential in the late 1880s to 1890s as US Minister in Turkey. Later U.S. Sec. of Commerce & Labor in 1900s under President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt - Served one year again in Turkey, as Ambassador, under President Taft. Wrote his autobiography in 1922, "Under Four Administrations: From Cleveland to Taft." His older brother, Isidor Straus and his wife were among the victims in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.
Wystan said:
The photo was taken at a reception for New York Bull Moose candidate for Governor Oscar Straus and Mrs. Straus, held at the Port Washington, Long Island, home of Bull Moose congressional candidate -- and former Congressman -- Bourke Cockran, on September 28, 1912 -- a kick-off event for the fall campaign of the Nassau County Bull Moose (Progressive) Party. Story in The New York Times, September 29, 1912: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F04EFD9113AE6... Other Bain/LOC photos of the Lawn Fete for Oscar Straus:
Wystan said:
LOC -- Mr. Cockran's name is misspelled in your title, and in Bain's as well.