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This would be Air Commodore Charles Rumney Samson CMG, DSO & Bar, AFC (8 July 1883 – 5 February 1931) the British naval aviation pioneer. You can read more about him here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Rumney_Samson

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This beauty of a photograph (together with the one before) shows the very early Short S.41 Tractor Biplane which was completed in March 1912 as a landplane. It was later converted as a seaplane, with two central floats and three streamlined air-bags (!). Commander Samson used the machine in the Naval Review in 1912. Source: C.H. Barnes. Shorts aircraft since 1900, page 80. Cheers Kees

Richard Arthur Norton and Varese2002: Thank you! When we update the source record, we will add the expanded descriptive information.

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The Marriage of Columbine Punch and Judy Theatre Opening:Nov 10, 1914 Closing: Dec 1914 Total Performances: 31 www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=8090

CUTEST OF ALL PLAYHOUSES TO OPEN TUESDAY NIGHT; Everything in Readiness for the First Performance of "The Marriage of Columbine" at the Punch and Judy Theatre. WITH six new shows opening in as many of the larger theatres last week it is strange that the coming week is to be given over entirely to the opening of the smallest theatre in the city, but on Tuesday night the new Punch and Judy Theatre, on Forty-ninth Street, near Broadway, will throw open its doors, when "The Marriage of Columbine," a new comedy in four acts, by Harold Chapin, will be the attraction. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60C16FE3B5916738... Mr. Charles Hopkins is the owner of the Punch & Judy, and Mrs. Hopkins does not appear to have a first name...

She's beautiful, with or without a name!! :)

Her maiden name was Violet Vivian. She was from England, retired from the stage in 1919 and died in 1960. select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30713FB3D541A7A... According to her obituary she was best know for playing Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet", Jim Hawkins in her husband's production of "Treasure Island" and Peter Pan in Barrie's Peter Pan.

Great portrait ...'love the tones.

Franklin Paine Mall (September 28, 1862 – November 17, 1917) was an American anatomist and pathologist known for his research and literature in the fields of anatomy and embryology. Mall was granted a fellowship for the Department of Pathology at the Johns Hopkins University and after positions at other universities, later returned to be the head of the first Anatomy Department at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. There, he reformed the field of anatomy and its educational curriculum. Mall was the founder and the first chief of the Department of Embryology at the Carnegie Institution for Science. He later donated his collection of human embryos that he started as a postgraduate student to the Carnegie Institution for Science.