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Wow Teddy Roosevelt!!

Actually, it does look like it has the date recorded - 10/22/12.

the trial: Thank you! It does look like 10/22/12 is the correct date. Image appears related to Roosevelt's trip by train from Chicago to Oyster Bay, Long Island after an assassination attempt. (Washington Post article, Oct. 22, 1912). We'll fix the information in the source data and reload the description.

Very cool! I featured it on my blog http://www.ekmediamag.com/2016/10/roosevelt-8-days-after-shooting.html with attribution.

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Shouldn't that be "single _masted_ vessel", as in having one mast? All vessels have only one "master", the ship's captain. The vessel's mainmast appears to be missing, leaving only the mizzen.

best shot

I agree with the curator's comment at the persistent URL that this shipo is a coal loader, therefore it is unlikely to any longer be a passenger vessel.

it does appear to have been loaded with coal at the time of this photo but this ship had previously been a navy ship, notice the gun deck port hole covers have cut-outs for the cannons...

It is probably a former frigate hulked for use as a fuelling jetty. HMS Warrior, now preserved at Portsmouth, UK, only survived to today because she remained in use as an oiling jetty until her historical value was recognised and she was rescued. Please add to: Naval History

If these women are Belgian, then I am an Eskimo.....

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/lescatalpas] I don't know. I enlarged the high res version of the photo and all the women have European faces.

there aren't mountains on the belgian coast ??!!!

The headgear and the topography seem more like Brittany to my eye.