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This is a wonderful collection! You have transposed the photographer's middle and last names in the text (above) on all 19 images in this set. The set name is correct.

And so I have! Thanks for picking that up, will go through & fix now. -- Courtney

"The New Zealand politician Michael Joseph Savage (23 March 1872 – 27 March 1940) became the first Labour Prime Minister of New Zealand. Many regard him as one of New Zealand's greatest leaders." -- Wikipedia

I love looking back in time via photos like this. What a different world they had back then, one I would have loved to been a part of. Of course there was no Flickr back then. :)

Max - No offense, but I think you are more of a ball cap guy, rather than derby or top hat.

Wow, look at the hats! I think everyone has hats... Great photo...

Vice President of the United States James Sherman died on Oct 30, 1912, at age 57, while serving as VP of the United States (President Taft was in office). He died during the presidential re-election campaign (won by Woodrow Wilson) according to Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_S._Sherman

I need a hat like that! I went to a private school that had uniforms involving shirts and ties every day. Then I worked in jobs needing the same. Now I have a job where I make a lot more money with casual attire. I like casual much better. My great grandfather wouldn't come to meal in his own home without a tie on. To each generation their own!

PANCHO VILLA'S ARRANGEMENT WITH THE MUTUAL FILM COMPANY: "In January 1914, Pancho Villa became Hollywood's first Mexican superstar when he signed an exclusive contract with the Mutual Film Corporation. In return for $25,000, he agreed to keep other film companies from his battlefield, to fight in daylight whenever possible, and to reconstruct battles if the footage needed reshooting. "Now the subject of an HBO film starring Antonio Banderas (And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself), Villa is one of the main protagonists in Margarita de Orellana's vivid account of the American movie industry's fascination with the events of the Mexican Revolution. "Through memoir accounts, newspaper reports, and analysis of the films themselves, "Filming Pancho" reveals much about how Mexico was constructed in the American imagination and how the film images reinforced and justified American expansionism and racial and social prejudices." --From a description, on Amazon, of a documentary movie of Hollywood's treatment of the Mexican Revolution. (The DVD is available for purchase from various Amazon vendors.)

LOC -- You have misspelled the name Gonzalez in your title. Was Gonzalez actually a General?

Info about Abraham Gonzalez, from Wikipedia: "Villa's hatred of ['usurper' Mexican Presidente] Huerta became more personal and intense after March 7, 1913, when Huerta ordered the murder of Villa's political mentor, Abraham González, who had worked with Madero and Villa since 1910. González had been one of Madero's political advisors. He recruited Francisco Villa in 1910 to support Madero with the Plan de San Luis which started the first part of the Mexican Revolution with the armed movement of 20 November 1910. The Plan de San Luis was conceived to force Dictator Porfirio Diaz (Mexican president for 33 years) to leave the presidency and allow for a Mexican democracy.[3] Villa later recovered González's remains and gave his friend a proper funeral in Chihuahua."

Wystan: thank you for catching the typo in the title, the copyright notice by the Mutual Film Co, and for the additional information on Gonzalez. We will add it to the record when we update the database.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Gonz%C3%A1lez