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Seriously, it's been TAGGED with "Eskimo'?

In Alaska, the term Eskimo is commonly used, because it includes both Yupik and Inupiat, while Inuit is not accepted as a collective term or even specifically used for Inupiat. No universal replacement term for Eskimo, inclusive of all Inuit and Yupik people, is accepted across the geographical area inhabited by the Inuit and Yupik peoples. In Canada and Greenland, the term Eskimo has fallen out of favour, as it is considered pejorative by the natives and has been replaced by the term Inuit. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo]

If they're Alaskan then they're not Inuit either - Inuits are from Canada.

The NY Times Archives has R.A.C. Smith as Commissioner of Docks and Ferries "who is a member of the Port and Terminal Committee of the Board of Estimate" in 1916. See one article here: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9406E...; Other photos/articles available via Google search of "R.A.C. Smith."

I started a Wikipedia entry for him: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.A.C._Smith Robert A.C. Smith (February 22, 1857 - July 27, 1933) was the Commissioner of Docks in New York City.

Richard Arthur Norton: thanks for pointing out R.A.C. Smith's first name. We'll add it to the description next time we update.

Does anyone know if " Florence Smith" is related to R A C Smith?. Could she be a younger daughter? . According to NYTimes 1918 She was a bridesmaid to Julia Narganes, who was daughter of Ricardo Narganes......a wealth cuban and close pesonal friend & business associate.of RACS.

Sophie Braslau, American contralto www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/15434393504/ www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3066020126/

Sophie Braslau (1892-1935) was a contralto prominent in United States opera, starting with her debut in New York City's Metropolitan Opera in 1913 when she was just 21 years of age. [1] In her obituary The New York Times wrote, "The singer considered as her greatest triumph an experience during a rehearsal for a concert at Richmond, Va., where she had been sent to substitute for Mme. Louise Homer. After an introduction to the musicians in the empty auditorium, she sang an aria for rehearsal."

"I finished and there came a dead silence," she recalled later, "quickly followed by the strangest sound I had ever heard.  The musicians tapped their music stands with their bows or clapped their hands." In a few seconds it seemed as if pandemonium had let loose, and how happy I was! It was really the finest moment of my life. My mother was there, and it seemed to me that this was her triumph, for the evening concert was a great success and this was the first big joy she had experienced after her many years of devoted supervision."

(Many photographs of Mme. Homer can be seen in the LOC Bain Collection here.) There are currently nine photographs of Sophie Braslau in the LOC Bain Collection from c.1910-1915 here.)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Braslau

Pixel Wrangler: thank you for the fuller information. We will update all of our records.