pipingrock
6 photos tagged pipingrock, from 1 member of Flickr Commons.
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- locustvalley
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- theodorerooseveltiii
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Recent uploads
The last upload was September 2014.
T. Roosevelt Jr. (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded September 2014
Mrs. Otto Kahn (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded March 2010
Aug. Belmont & Paul Cravath (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded March 2010
Mrs. Vanderpoel, Mrs. Fred D. Johnson, and Mrs. C.K.G. Billings (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded July 2009
Piping Rock Races (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded April 2009
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Mrs. Vanderpoel, Mrs. Fred D. Johnson, and Mrs. C.K.G. Billings (LOC)
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pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:
The woman on the left is perhaps Mrs. William Halsted Vander Poel, the former Gretchen Billings, daughter of CKG Billings (chairman of Union Carbide). CKG Billings and Frederick Johnson (apparently the husbands of the other two women) together bought some English thoroughbred horses to raise for raising in 1915.
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Wystan said:
C. K. G. Billings and Fred Johnson were partners in the ownership of race horses, including "Omar Khayyam," winner of the 1917 Kentucky Derby. This photo appears to have been taken at the stepped observation boxes of the Piping Rock Country Club, in Locust Valley, Long Island, on July 10, 1913. Here is the same scene, same day, shifted to the right:
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Wystan said:
Another Bain/LOC photo of the same venue was posted to Flickr on April 27, 2011:
T. Roosevelt Jr. (LOC)
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*Milou* said:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt,_Jr.
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Pete (LOC P&P) said:
Lynne: thank you for finding additional information on Theodore Roosevelt Jr. We will include it in the record.
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Art Siegel said:
This appears to be taken at the same time and place as this photo of Roosevelt at the races at Piping Rock Country Club in Locust Valley, N.Y. which ran in the New York Sun on October 29, 1916. chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030431/1916-10-29/ed-...