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The Adam Powell poster on the wall sent me to wikipedia. Sounds like he was quite the iconoclast as New York's first Congressman with African ancestry, but what the hell is this, from the wiki article? "In 1960, Powell, hearing of planned civil rights marches at the Democratic Convention, which could embarrass the party or candidate, threatened to accuse Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. of having a homosexual relationship with Bayard Rustin unless the marches were cancelled. Rustin, one of King's political advisers, was an openly gay man. King agreed to cancel the planned events and Rustin resigned from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference".

Adam Clayton Powell was quite the guy!!!

Setting up for live radio broadcast, August 1922. See

Cockaday is Laurence M. Cockaday, a radio expert who had written a book on the subject in 1922. Here's a review: "Radio Telephony for Everyone," by Laurence M. Cockaday
(Stokes), Is a clear nontechnical explanation of the working theory of radio in general, and the receiver and transmitter in particular, so that the boy of sixteen and the man of sixty will read It with equal interest and satisfaction.
Mr. Cockaday. technical editor of Popular Radio and The Modulator, has studied and worked in radio telephony for fifteen years. He built one of the first broadcasting stations In the United States. During the war he served as radio instructor in the navy, and while there Invented a radio transmitter extensively used during the war. His position as technical editor on radio publications keeps him in touch with the latest developments In the field, so that readers of hls book are certain to find definite, up-to-date Information upon which to work."
The Washington Times, July 16, 1922.
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Cockaday is pictured elswhere in the Bain Collection, along with Kendall Banning who, like Cockaday, was editor of Popular Radio Magazine.:

Dr. E.E. Free (Edward Elway Free, 1883-1939), was a scientist and science journalist. His November 1939 New York Times obit began: "DR. E.E. FREE DEAD; EDITOR, SCIENTIST; Former Head of the Scientific American Aided in Discovery of Potash on Coast OVERCAME WILT IN PLANTS Conducted Studies That Led to Anti-Noise Campaign of Mayor La Guardia. Dr. Edward Elway Free, former editor of The Scientific American, who was noted for popularizing scientific subjects, died Friday night at Post Graduate Hospital, where he had undergone an operation. He had been ill for two months. His age was 56." nytimes.com/1939/11/26/archives/dr-ee-free-dead-editor-scientist-former-head-of-the-scientific.html timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1939/11/26/94744472...

Kendall Banning (1879-1944) pennyspoetry.fandom.com/wiki/Kendall_Banning www.findagrave.com/memorial/30211250/

Art Siegel B-59 Thank you for the information on the three men pictured.

Other Bain/LOC photos of beach and water fun, July 25, 1914:

The photos featuring Elsie Hanneman and "canoe tilting" were taken at the Colonial Yacht Club, located on the small beach just below Riverside Drive on the Hudson River, roughly between 140th and 142nd Streets in Harlem. Today, the Henry Hudson Parkway and North River Wastewater Treatment Plant occupies this and surrounding property. However, in 1993 the site returned to being a place of recreation, as Riverbank State Park was constructed on top of the wastewater plant, some 69-ft above the Hudson. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverbank_State_Park