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S.F.B. Morse is presumably www.nyu.edu/greyart/information/Samuel_F_B__Morse/body_sa... "Better known as the inventor of the electric telegraph, Samuel F. B. Morse was also a professor of painting and sculpture at New York University, which was founded in 1832. His appointment that year to the first such professorship in the United States represents a milestone in his mission to promote the fine arts as truly American. " Corbis has a photo of the portrait in color www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/MA01644A/...

From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Morse#Painting "Morse was honored to paint the Marquis de Lafayette, the leading French supporter of the American Revolution. He felt compelled to paint a grand portrait of the man who helped to establish a free and independent America. In his image, he enshrouds Lafayette with a magnificent sunset. He has positioned Lafayette to the right of three pedestals: one has a bust of Benjamin Franklin, another of George Washington, and the third seems reserved for Lafayette. A peaceful woodland landscape below him symbolized American tranquility and prosperity as it approached the age of fifty. The developing friendship between Morse and Lafayette, and their discussions of the Revolutionary War, affected the artist after his return to New York City." inventors.about.com/od/mstartinventors/a/samuel_morse.htm indicates that the portrait was commissioned by New York City. www.nyc.gov/html/artcom/html/tours/visit_guide_collection... indicates that it hangs in City Hall in New York. NYT of Feb 22, 1916 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30D14F93E5E13738... indicates that it was exhibited in a Lafayette exhibition

Charles W. Morse (1855?-1933), a speculator and stock promoter who was 49 years old in 1904, at the time his second marriage was annulled, as described in this New York Times article. The article describes Morse as "...the promoter of the American Ice Company and an officer of about thirty banks and other corporations in this and other cities." It also notes that he had been a widower with three sons and a daughter. Perhaps the dapper young fellows flanking him in this photo were two of his sons? Morse had a hand in the Panic of 1907, during which stocks on the New York exchange lost half their value. In 1908, Morse was convicted of misappropriating funds of the Bank of North America. He was sentenced to federal prison, though he did not begin serving his term until 1910. Early in 1912, he managed to convince physicians that he was near death, and President Taft commuted his sentence ("MORSE PARDONED IN DEATH'S SHADOW" cried the New York Times headline on January 19, 1912. After his release, Morse miraculously recovered, and went on to outlive Taft by three years (and to be depicted in this Bain photo, which appears to date from 1915.) Though Morse has no Wikipedia article, Taft's biographer Henry Pringle devoted considerable space to the Morse affair, with lots of background information about Morse himself, and this section of Pringle's 1939 book can currently be read online on this web page.

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If the writing on the left side of the picture can be believed, this was 1 May, 1911. Mrs. Morse died 10 October, 1911. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F02E4DF1E38E633A...

the fence and possible racing form indicate they are at a race track, there is an identical fence here

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called 1910s Fashion, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

At the Belmont Park race track, on May Day, May 1, 1911.

assortedwhatnots She died Oct. 10, 1915