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I think this is Chong-Hsu Henry Wang, a Yale undergraduate who won the university's junior class Ten Eyck prize for speaking in March, 1915. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9806E7DA1238E633A... His speech warned of Japan's aggressive intentions toward China: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C04E5D61439EF32A... He graduated Yale in 1916 and received a Masters from Princeton in 1917. books.google.com/books?id=2DJLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA452&d... In September, 1921 (the date on the negative at upper left), a C.H. Wang came to the U.S. as Chief Justice of the Chinese Supreme Court and delegate to the Washington conference on disarmament and Far East questions, and as a member of a committee to revise the League of Nations covenant. However, this C.H. Wang is apparently Wang Chung-hui. books.google.com/books?id=K6EqAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA237&l... query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B06E6DE1431EF33A...

artolog: Thanks for identifying Wang for us. It seems likely this is the same person. We'll include some of your information next time we update the description.

The current caption confuses two people. Art is correct in stating that Chief Justice Wang Chung-hui (also C.H. Wang) is a different person. An obituary from 1984 states that Cheng-Hsu Wang was a banker who graduated from Yale (1916) and Princeton (M.A. History and Politics, 1917): "He worked on Wall Street until volunteering with the International Y.M.C.A. in France during World War I. Returning later to China, he was in banking in Singapore until he became manager of Overseas-Banking China Corp. in Shanghai. Wang returned to New York in 1936 as president of the newly established New York office of the Bank of China. During the turmoil and aftermath of the Sino-Japanese War, he was transferred to Burma, later to Kunming, Rangoon, and Calcutta. Following the communist takeover of mainland China and the recognition of it by India, Wang got to Hong Kong in 1957, and thence, with his wife, Eling, to the U.S., where they settled in Washington, D.C. Eling died in 1980." books.google.com/books?id=_BZbAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA18&am... A photo of Cheng-Hsu Henry Wang in 1916 can be found in his Yale yearbook, verifying the subject of this photograph: archive.org/stream/historyofclassof1916yale#page/n337/mod... Most sources spell his given name "Cheng-Hsu"

Nick, Thank you for catching this conflation of two people in our description. We will use the information you've provided to correct the caption.

Christopher Columbus memorial, Union Station, Washington, D. C. Sculptor, Lorado Taft. Dedicated on June 8, 1912: www.vanderkrogt.net/statues/object.php?webpage=CO&rec...

In this one and the bible institute one, the speakers have both removed their hats.

There was a "speaker's corner", like the one in London's Hyde Park, at Madison near 23rd, in Madison Square Park. There was also a stock brokerage, Posner & Co., across the street on Madison Avenue (Their signage is on a storefront in back of the speaker). It's likely that this photo, and the ones of Philibiss were taken of orators at that corner in 1915. books.google.com/books?id=qpTJ4EMlS10C&lpg=PA14&d...

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