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The left-hand ribbon says "Delegate, National ???? League Convention" Date at lower right may be 8/18/13

Mrs. Haviland H. Lund is the head of the Forward-to-the-Land League which ... Mrs. Lund advises city men to go to the suburbs and cultivate a piece of land ... Source: The Hartford Courant ; August 21, 1913

Joseph N. Francolini was a delegate to the Forward-to-the-Land League Convention, appointed by Governer Sulzer of New York. The Convention was held Aug. 6-9 in Boston, according to NYT of August 2, 1913 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9807E0DD163DE633A... Presumably the middle woman is his wife. Mrs. Slack's spectacular costume does not seem ideal for the farm!!

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Tycor Road today.

Niall McAuley Perfect, thanks! Wonder if it was a biggish house that's not showing on the OSI.

There doesn't appear to have been much in Tycor (or Ticor as it was spelt on the OSI maps back then) when this photo was taken. The nearest big house would probably have been the Manor of St. John in Lisduggan. This is Tycor on the 25" OSI map maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,658965,611881,6,9

There does not appear to have been any Powers living in Tycor around this time, I wonder if this was taken at Mrs Powers parents house, if so it might possibly have been at the home of Walter and Ellen Hearne. Walter was a caretaker at the waterworks in Tycor and was 72 in 1911. The house in the photo looks more like a small cottage and the kind of place a caretaker might live, bit of a wild guess I know:) 1911 Census for Walter Hearne www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai003503919/

Here's what you get if you type Tycor house Waterford into google. That house is not on the 25" map, surveyed June 1905.