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Bouck White (1874-1951), Congregational minister, arrested for disorderly conduct when he appeared at a church service to preach about the immorality of wealth; his wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouck_White

Bain caption has it right, LOC caption for some reason truncates the admittedly rather unusual first name.

pennylrichardsca & Wystan: Thanks for the further information on Bouck White. An article in the New York Times of May 11, 1914 gives a good retelling of the events leading up to and following the moment captured in this photograph. trialsanderrors: Yet another case where the Bain caption card transcribed by Library staff did not match with the information on the Bain negative itself. We will get them in sync when we update this record. Thanks!

Very interesting and detailed article, thanks. The church, attended by the Rockefellers, was replaced by a newer building in 1930, and was on West 57th Street, near Carnegie Hall. White's action (with 20 of his followers) at the church was in response to the Ludlow Massacre in Colorado, which had taken place on April 20th. A more sympathetic account of White's actions that day (for which he served 6 months in jail) is told here: www.archive.org/stream/fromprisoletters00whitrich/frompri... When supporters petitioned Governor Glynn for his pardon, he wrote the governor to assure him that he was not sorry for his actions: "" Repentant ! " I am, sir, the most unrepentant pris- oner a New York City jail ever sloughed into a cell. Let another Ludlow massacre happen, I would repeat my deed to-morrow. So far from life in prison having wrought in me a penitential work, it has tightened and reenforced in me a remonstrant mood."

Other Bain/LOC photos of the 1914 Harvard University rowing crews:

Margaret Harwood's papers are at the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard: oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch00771 During WWII, she taught navigation to Navy Sea Bees in Nantucket.

I used this image on a purse:

Just noticed that Margaret Harwood doesn't have a wikipedia entry yet. Leaving this note so I'll remember to do something about that when I get a chance, unless someone else gets to it first.

Hi Penny, Thank you for letting us know about the purse and thank you in advance for letting us know about adding Margaret Harwood to Wikipedia. FYI, we will be participating in an upcoming "Wikipedia Loves Libraries" edit-a-thon on October 12. Although you sadly are far away, you could participate remotely if you're interested. More details are here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/WLL/2012 Sincerely, Effie

I just added her name under "Articles to Start" at the meetup page, so if I don't get to it before the edit-a-thon, someone there might give it a go.