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Any idea of the actual date taken? Listed date is January 01, 1900 which can’t be right!

erik jagger upper left corner, looks like a date, with 24 written. maybe 1924 ? it's just a speculation

The date written on the negative is 8/22/24. This could mean that it was taken in 1924, but one practice of the Bain studio was to apply a date when they used the photo later, often because the individual or event was in the news again. LoC does not apply exact dates without confirming evidence and described this photo as "circa 1900." Looking at the photos in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini I personally think circa 1920 might be closer. In the Perth Amboy Evening News. April 03, 1924, FINAL EDITION, Page 3, bottom of column 4 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85035720/1924-04-03/ed-... is a photo that looks to be of him with a similar build.

www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/italian-dictator-be... has a copy of this photo and dates it as September 1923. It also reckons the location is Biarritz.

Thanks swanq for looking into this photo and explaining to everyone how Bain's dating of photos worked. From my experience, it seems that Bain rarely sent their photographers outside New York City or the surrounding area. If you see a Bain photo taken in Europe then you can be fairly certain they made a copy of another photo, and the date is probably when the copy was made. I think we'll hold off on adding the date from the Getty Images copy since it also comes from a press agency (in that case, a British one) and I'm not sure if their dating is any more accurate than Bain's.

"Katherine Leckie, a journalist, editorial consultant, and press agent, was born in Kingston, Ontario. Over the course of her career as a journalist she reported for the Chicago Chronicle, Chicago American, and the New York Evening Journal. She held editorial positions with the Delineator in 1907-1908, Woman's Magazine from 1908 to 1912, and the Housekeeper in 1913. Following her career as a writer and editor, she founded her own New York-based editorial consulting and public relations firm, through which she met the Hungarian pacifist Rosika Schwimmer in 1914. Leckie managed Schwimmer's 1914-1915 United States lecture tour, contracting with women's clubs and pacifist organizations in over twenty states across the country to schedule Schwimmer as a speaker. The 1915 season was cut short, however, due to both women's attendance at the International Congress of Women at The Hague, and their involvement with the Henry Ford Peace Expedition of 1915-1916. Leckie was hired as public relations and press manager for the Ford Peace Expedition, although her duties stretched far beyond public relations. In particular, she contributed to the process of selecting and courting guests for the expedition, and brought on the four female journalists who accompanied the voyage. Following her time with the Ford Expedition, Leckie served as organizer of news distribution for the Conservation Division of the Food Administration in Washington D.C. in 1917, and the director of publicity for the Y.W.C.A. Free Milk for France campaign of 1918. Katherine Leckie passed away in 1930." from biographical material associated with Katherine Leckie's papers in the collections of the New York Public Library. www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/archivalcollections/pdf/...

Awesome

puzzlemaster: Thanks so much for the background information on Katherine Leckie. We will include some of it next time we update the description.

He's not this J. F. Archibald: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._F._Archibald James Francis Jewell Archibald was an American journalist aboard the Rotterdam in August 1915, when he was detained by British authorities. He was carrying papers that revealed a plot to disrupt American munitions production by fomenting labor unrest at plants such as the Bethlehem Iron Works. The "Dumba Affair" is explained in this entry on the Austro-Hungarian ambassador who was expelled as a result: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Dumba

Thanks for the info! We'll update record.