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I think this is a Japanese Type 95 Light Tank at the museum at Fort Knox, Kentucky. It has been moved to another museum at Fort Benning, Georgia.

Secretary of State, at the time: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philander_C._Knox

Same occasion as several other photos, clearly an event that drew many ambassadors, etc.: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3313667335/ www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3314472564/ www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3313655763/

A biography of Philander Knox starts around page 854 of History of Pittsburgh and Environs, from Prehistoric Days to the Beginning of the American Revolution ... by George Thornton Fleming, American Historical Society, 1922 books.google.com/books?id=k_kMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA854&l... She is the former Lillie Smith.

www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/lccn/sn83030214/1909-03-07... is a New York Tribune page from March 7, 1909 featuring "women of President Taft's new official family" that includes a picture of her.

Member of the ill-fated South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club above Johnstown, PA.

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I was very often thinking why I have different feeling from these very old photographs.. They usually have very low depth of field, which is understandable, but they also have amazing space.. I realized it when I was looking to the Library of Congress sets.. Almost all pictures have slightly shorter focus (closer to the camera). Notice that the focus is to the grass before tank, and not to the tank itself. Today's practice is to focus directly to the point of interest (eyes in the portrait photography, tank turret in this case..)

Just thinking of the military aspect.

How succesful was this tank on the battlefield?

Simply beautiful
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