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Tinkers, to Evers to Chance. Click on his name (above right as tag) for link to other photo(s) and links.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Chance Neat.

Harry - have you read the Rabbit books by any chance?

At that time, Chance was manager of the New York Americans (aka Yankees), Irwin was business manager of the club (The times dispatch., February 13, 1913, Page 6, co. 3). On February 15, 1913 (date on sticker 2/15/13), Chance and Irwin sailed for Bermuda on the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's steamer Arcadian (New-York tribune., February 15, 1913, Page 12, col. 5).

This is a (albeit understandable) misspelling on the caption. "Lt. W.P. Irwin" should be spelled, "W.P. Erwin." This is a photo of American Fighter Ace William P. Erwin. Bill Erwin would go missing (and presumably drowned) during the ill-fated Dole Air Race from Oakland, CA to Honolulu, Hawaii. Erwin was piloting a Swallow airplane named "Dallas Spirit." Erwin and navigator Alvin Eichwaldt failed to return from a search for two other missing competitors, the Miss Doran and The Golden Eagle, and is presumed to have perished on 19 August 1927. See: William P. Erwin en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Portwood_Erwin Swallow Monoplane "Dallas Spirit" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Spirit Dole Air Race en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dole_Air_Race See other photos of Erwin during the Dole Air Race within the SDASM Fickr photostream, here are just two among many:

Could this be a group of nurses? The caps and aprons suggests working women. I'm doubtful they are domestic servants, so perhaps nurses? Doctor at the back, and some matrons in darker clothes. Celebrating some anniversary or other as they have a badge of some sort on their chests.