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www.h-net.org/~business/bhcweb/publications/BEHprint/v028... mentions that biographers of Otto Kahn have either focused on his career of financier or on his support of the arts (such as the Metropolitan Opera). There was no mention of horses and four-in-hands. The NYT Magazine Section of August 7, 1910 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=990CE5DA1E39E333A... "OTTO KAHN -- A MAN OF STEEL AND VELVET; The Methods of a Financier Who Is a Big Figure in More Worlds Than the Financial One." does mention that he like to drive a four-in-hand. NYT of September 26, 1913, query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9905E2D9163DE633A... indicates that he did not drive the horses in the competition, so perhaps this is a photo op.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Hermann_Kahn en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morristown_Field_Club

what a lovely image!

Is that the same little lady as in the previous Powers posting.Maybe a member of the family?.

Yes!! The prize of (virtual) Christmas pudding goes to philip ward !! It is the same girl, as suggested before - maybe a daughter of the Powers... Either way, it allows us to date Hamburg! Urgent! to 1929, rather than somewhere between 1926 and 1939... :)

Rather an odd outfit for the driver. No wonder he looks out of sorts. First thing I thought when I saw the young lady was that we had seen her before in the Hamburg Urgent shot but I had been away working and had not see todays posts. She is dressed up all fancy in this one but she still looks very pretty. As regards the trees morrisoxfordV there are a variety of trees for the good reason that Powers sold seeds and trees!

I eagerly await the pudding in my email.

NY Times, January 11, 1913: Mrs. Burleson, Wife of Army Officer In Command of Suffrage Pageant. Most Internet references to a Mrs. R.C. Burleson pertain to a much older woman, the wife of Dr. Rufus C. Burleson, of Waco, Texas, who was a Baptist minister and long-time President of Baylor University. He died in 1901. I've been unable to find any connection between the two R.C. Burlesons.

Whyaduck: Thanks for your information about Mrs. Burleson and the March 3, 1913 suffrage march in Washington, D.C. I think the subject 's fuller name is Mrs. Richard Coke Burleson. See this diagram of the march for her name at the bottom of the image: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.02946 . We will update the information in the source data and reload the description.

Mrs. Richard Coke Burleson was the former May Walker, born in San Saba, Texas, in 1889. Richard Burleson, son of Leigh Burleson, was also born in San Saba, in 1881. Two or three pages of a book called The Guns of Meeting Street by T. Felder Dorn concern the later lives of the Burlesons. In 1940, three years after a bitter divorce, May Burleson shot and killed her husband's second wife, the former Isabella Knowlton, in a Columbia, South Carolina hotel cafeteria. I don't have the book and only know what appears in a Google Books preview, which does not include the outcome of May's trial, though a line in the Bibliography indicates that the jury handed down a verdict of manslaughter with recommendation of mercy. Maybe I'll try to get my local library to buy a copy.

Great find on the murderous Mrs. Burleson!

Mrs. Richard Coke Burleson, the Grand Marshal of the Suffrage Parade in Washington D. C. on March 3, 1913 which was organized by the Congressional Union Committee of NAWSA, was the former Miss Kitty Walker from Galveston. San Antonio Express newspaper, page 40 B, January 26, 1913.