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Sullivan funeral - bowery (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Wystan said:
    In this Bain/LOC photo, taken at the docking of the IMPERATOR on July 17, 1913, Big Tim Sullivan is the tall man at the right. Dying of syphilis, maybe he already knew that he would be dead by the end of August:
  • Wystan said:
    LOC -- "Bowery" should be capitalized.
  • Kristi (LOC P&P) said:
    Wystan, Thanks for the information. We will add to the record and fix the typo when we update.

Sullivan funeral - Bowery (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Wystan said:
    LOC -- "Bowery" should be capitalized.
  • Kristi (LOC P&P) said:
    Wystan, Thanks for the heads up! We will fix that when we update.
  • Jim (Dr. Mo) Moshinskie, PhD CPT said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called New York City Undertakers & Funeral Homes, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Larry Mulligan - Hicks, Tim Sullivan (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

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  • BobMeade said:
    Big Tim Sullivan - political hard man who met an ignominious end.
  • Jim Rees said:
    Larry Mulligan was Big Tim's half brother. Can't figure out who Hicks is. Ignominious end, yes, but 25,000 turned out for his funeral. That's after his body went unrecognized for two weeks and he nearly ended up in potter's field. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Sullivan
  • Wystan said:
    Photo is dated 7-17-1913.
  • Betty Berg said:
    Nice work Wystan. Almost missed it inverted on the right edge.
  • BobMeade said:
    Mona, I have trouble reading the dates, but once someone like Wystan has found a date on the plate negative, then we can do a search of the New York Times to find out more. If we go to the advanced search funtion of the NYT archive, and knowing that Tim Sullivan is the most well known person in this group, let's search of "Tim Sullivan" from July 1, 1913 to July 31, 1913: query.nytimes.com/search/query?frow=0&n=10&srcht=... Then scan the headlines and dates together, and we see a headline "Big Tim Sullivan Returns Imroved; Presence of Politician on Imperator a Secret Until Ship Reaches ..." and dated July 17, 1913. Usually, we look for an article dated the day after the date on the negative, but there is no article for July 18, 1913 in this search. So let's try the one on July 17, 1913: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9904E5DD163DE633A... and here: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9904E... Neither of these articels exactly correlates with the date on the plate identified by Wystan, but we get a good idea of the fact that a sick Big Tim is back in town.