georgereid

article on Sir George: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_George_Reid

Love this photo.

Creepy-looking dude.

The photo of the Rt. Hon. Sir George Reid probably dates from his visit to New York in September, 1912, as it is part of the Bain News Agency's 1912 photostream, and Bain's 1918 photos have not yet been posted on Flickr. (As I write this, it is September 2010, and LOC is currently posting Bain's 1914 output.) Story on Sir George, from The New York Times, September 22, 1912 [in it, Reid states that this was his first New York visit in fifteen years]: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F30F1EFD345813...

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Sir George Reid was an Australian politician, born in 1845. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_George_Reid

Mrs. [Oliver Templeton] Johnson (b. Laura Winthrop) wrote prose and poetry, including Poems of Twenty Years (1874), 800 Miles in an Ambulance (1899), and The Life and Poems of Theodore Winthrop (1884). Her father, Francis Bayard Winthrop, Jr. of New Haven, Conn., collected works of art, including those of painter Washington Allston. Source: siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!2...

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Famous Australian politician. Wikipedia entry is reasonably accurate: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_George_Reid See also here: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2349130513/

Thanks! We'll fix the title in the source data and reload the description.

According to the New York Times article of Thursday September 19, 1912, Sir George Reid arrived in New York the previous day. (ref. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C06E5D6123CE633A... According to ellis Island records he also arrived on Caronia from Liverpool on May 04, 1913. He is also known to have visited the USA in November 1917 for a speaking tour, during which he contracted pneumonia and had to cancel much of the engagements. (ref. about 1917 speaking tour: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9901E4DB163AE532A... ) According to Ellis Island records he arrived on New York, from Liverpool on October 22, 1917. Lady Reid was later to become Dame Flora Reid in her own right: "During the First World War his wife Flora Reid worked to provide services to the Australian troops. For this she was made a Dame Grand Cross of the British Empire in 1917 and was among the first to receive the award." (ref. www.nma.gov.au/education/school_resources/websites_and_in... and www.naa.gov.au/naaresources/publications/research_guides/... and the New York Times article mentioning her honor here: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D06E4DD123FE433A... )

See www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3238477345/ Could be at same event.

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