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Interstate 5 in Little Italy, San Diego, looking north. Weaving ramps at left are SB Grape St. on-ramp and SB Front St. off-ramp.

Mott Street is actually in Manhattan, not Brooklyn. We'll fix this in the catalog record.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mott_Street
"Mott Street (Chinese: 勿街; Jyutping: Mat6 gaai1) is a narrow but busy thoroughfare that runs in a north–south direction in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is regarded as Chinatown's unofficial "Main Street". Mott Street runs from Bleecker Street in the north to Chatham Square in the south.
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Mott Street north of Canal Street was historically part of Little Italy. Today it is predominantly Chinese."

Graham guardian., October 19, 1917, page 1 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn95060914/1917-10-19/ed-... shows similar picture, captioned, "Society women of New York advertising the Liberty Loan in the lower part of the city, one of their listeners being the Italian woman who has three sons at the front. The women are Mrs. James F. Curtis and Mrs. William A. Burton."

James F. Curtis was an Assistant Secetary at the Treasury. It makes sense that his wife was promoting the Liberty Loan program. Mrs. Curtis made a habit of getting pictured at such events. See chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1916-03-26/ed-... chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030431/1919-02-23/ed-... The Washington times., October 11, 1912, LAST EDITION, Page 7 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1912-10-11/ed-... has an engagement announcement that indicates that she is probably the former Laura Beatrice Merriam. The Washington times., April 19, 1914, Second Sunday Evening EDITION, page 12, col 1 (near bottom). chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1914-04-19/ed-... confirms that Laura did marry Curtis.

LoC has several pictures of Laura Merriam by Harris & Ewing, www.loc.gov/photos/?q=laura+merriam The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, July 27, 1938, Page 1 bklyn.newspapers.com/newspage/52617243/ indicates that she had an interesting marital life. She and Curtis divorced in 1924, remarried 13 months later, and divorced again in 1938. This article is about her marriage to John Messick Gross. According to www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14941475 she was born in 1892 and died in 1973.

swanq She does look kind of sassy :) Thanks for the info!

The poster, in color:
docsouth.unc.edu/wwi/41893/100.html

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