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Progressive / Bull Moose politicians Oscar Straus and Lucien Bonheur are in this photo, the handwriting on the photo is not the same as the title given to the photo. Maybe a mistake. Mary Condon and Mrs. Woodruff are in other pictures in this series, (see previous pic), but their names in this caption seems to be carried over by mistake.

Thanks for your comment. You are right about the caption being a mistake. We checked the caption card for this image and the caption should be "Straus, L.L. Bonheur, O. Straus", as it is on the image. We'll fix the information in the source data and reload the description.

Oscar Solomon Straus - Jewish statesman and diplomat to the Middle East, influential in the late 1880s to 1890s as US Minister in Turkey. Later U.S. Sec. of Commerce & Labor in 1900s under President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt - Served one year again in Turkey, as Ambassador, under President Taft. Wrote his autobiography in 1922, "Under Four Administrations: From Cleveland to Taft." His older brother, Isidor Straus and his wife were among the victims in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.

Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucien_Laurent_Bonheur en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Solomon_Straus

The photo was taken at a reception on September 28, 1912, for New York Bull Moose gubernatorial candidate Oscar Straus. The reception, which kicked off the fall political campaign of the Bull Moose (Progressive) Party in Nassau County, was held at the Port Washington, Long Island, home of former Congressman Bourke Cockran, who in 1912 was a candidate for congress on the Bull Moose ticket. Story in The New York Times, September 29, 1912: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F04EFD9113AE6... Other Bain/LOC photos taken at the Lawn Fete for Oscar Straus:

At least we have the year this picture was take ... 1983 or 1984 .... Bill. 5/28/14