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• British Library 20 photos & illustrations
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• Smithsonian Institution 8 photos & illustrations
• Archives of the Law Society of Ontario 2 photos & illustrations
• George Eastman Museum 1 photo / illustration
• Navy Medicine 1 photo / illustration
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• East Riding Archives 1 photo / illustration

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Gar II (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• B-59 said:

  "Motor Cruiser Fails To Equal Train Time - NEW YORK, April 30. The motor cruiser Gar II Jr, of Detroit, racing against passenger train time from Miami, Fla., to New York, completed the last leg of her voyage here today. Her actual running time for 1260 miles was announced by her commander, Gar Wood, as 47 hours and 23 minutes. The running time of the Havana special over the Atlantic Coast line, which the Gar tried to better, was 43 hours for 1480 miles. This time in cluded all regular stops and a wait of one hour at Washington." Arizona republican., May 01, 1921, Section Two, PAGE TWELVE, Image 24, col. 6 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020558/1921-05-01/ed-... In contrast, the New-York tribune., May 01, 1921, Image 1, col. 4 & 5 (at bottom) wrote: "Gar II Beats Train in Race From Miami by 21 Minutes - The Gar II jr., "Gar" Wood's express motorboat cruiser, tied up at the Columbia Yacht Club wharf at 10:32 o'clock yesterday morning, having completed her 1,260-mile trip from Miami in 47 hours and 23 minutes. She beat the train time for the distance by twenty-one minutes." chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1921-05-01/ed-... See also photo in The Washington times., April 28, 1921, FINAL EDITION, Page 4 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1921-04-28/ed-...

Gar. Wood (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Art Siegel said:

  "Garfield 'Gar' Arthur Wood (December 4, 1880 – June 19, 1971) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, motorboat builder and racer who held the world water speed record on several occasions. He was the first man to travel over 100 miles per hour on water."
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfield_Wood
  see also

• Greg Marcangelo said:

  Thanks, Art!

Theo. W. Richards (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:

  Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1914 (and, sadly, no relation, despite our same last names and states of birth): www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1914/... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_William_Richards He married one of his professors' daughters; in turn, his daughter married a chemistry professor too--James Bryant Conant became president of Harvard. So this is Richards' son-in-law: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bryant_Conant And this is one of his grandsons, Ted Conant: library.columbia.edu/indiv/eastasian/korean/rarespecial/c...

• 민영 김 said:

  wow