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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."

Another Bain/LOC photo of the Harvard football scrimmage -- this one dated 9/26/12:

New York Times story, September 15, 1912: "Harvard's Football Outlook Promising"------- query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E07E3DC1F3CE6... New York Times Article, September 17, 1912: "Harvard on Gridiron" ----- query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9900EED7123CE6... New York Times Article, September 18, 1912: "More Men For Harvard" ----- query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E0CE2D81630E2... New York Times story, September 19, 1912: "Harvard Quarter Back Find" ----- query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C02E6D6123CE6... New York Times story, September 20, 1912: "Harvard Squads to be Selected To-Day"----- query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9807EFD81630E2...

The year before this photo, 1935, she married Carl Keenan Seyfert, a fellow astronomer; they had two children, Carl Jr. and Gail Carol. Carl Sr. died in a car accident in 1960, age 49. messier.seds.org/xtra/Bios/seyfert.html en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Keenan_Seyfert Muriel was also an artist, and painted portraits that can be seen here: www.tnportraits.org/dyer-arthur-j-vand.htm www.tnportraits.org/seyfert-dr-carl-vand.htm In a terrible coincidence, their son Carl Keenan Seyfert Jr., a geology professor, also died in a car accident, in 2007: www.redorbit.com/news/business/1119368/carl_k_seyfert_jr_...

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