schneider

A very lovely moment, great pose! It looks like he is really into an important book. But what a Name.

The photo above is from a catalog page labeled "Schneider & Cie." [Schneider et Compagnie] -- Schneider was/is a Swiss company, located in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. The 20-cm. gun appears to be positioned to defend locks on a canal. Three Bain/LOC photos of the "Schneider Coast Defence Train" were posted to Flickr three months ago:

Schneider & Cie. (aka Schneider-Creusot) has nothing to do with Switzerland, it's a French corporation, now Schneider Electric en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneider-Creusot fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneider_Electric

Thanks to both of you for your research. According to the library's authority file, B-59, Schneider took over Creusot and the company came to be known as Schneider & Cie in 1838. Thanks for identifying the other Schneider images Wystan. We'll add the company name to the records the next time we update.

Eddie August Henry Schneider (October 20, 1911 – December 23, 1940) set three transcontinental airspeed records for pilots under the age of twenty-one in 1930. His plane was a Cessna Model AW with a Warner-Scarab engine, one of only 48 built, that he called "The Kangaroo". He set the east-to-west, then the west-to-east, and the combined round trip record. He was the youngest certificated pilot in the United States, and the youngest certified airplane mechanic. He was a pilot in the Spanish Civil War in the Yankee Squadron. He died in an airplane crash in 1940 while training another pilot, when a US Navy bomber clipped his plane's tail at Floyd Bennett Field.

Richard Norton Thank you for your informative comments!