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Mike Donovan & father (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • William Kimber said:
    Wonderful sports portrait! All in the family!
  • Huitzil said:
    ah classic stance, lovely piece of history here.... it is such a great thing that the congress is sharing it's repository with the world through thei nternet, amazing!
  • Roger said:
    Is this the dad? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Mike_Donovan

Rigging and sailors, ca 1900

from National Library NZ on The Commons

  • dave nola said:
    looks like they are bending on a new upper topsail
  • Ubych said:
    love
  • Nikke Bird said:
    Love love LOVE this shot!!!
  • Hannah Young said:
    Like the dream, but it is the broken dream. When I was young, and I was a teacher of Chinese lessons shanghai( www.mandarininn.cn/ ), a student had wrote a special poem on my birthday card: Roots are the branches down in the earth. Branches are roots in the air.
  • Yun Ping said:
    nerves of steel

Spar Torpedo boat, Port Chalmers, ca 1880s

from National Library NZ on The Commons

  • Swordscookie said:
    There are in fact two boats here beside each other, nice lines on them!
  • Hannah Young said:
    The cloud stood humbly in a corner of the sky. The morning crowned it with splendour. When I saw this picture that have same taste with my birthday card that from my student of Chinese lessons shanghai( www.mandarininn.cn/ )

Joe Mandot (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

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  • pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:
    Joe Mandot was a Los Angeles-based featherweight boxer in the 1910s and 1920s: www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=229207 &cat=boxer There are at least two other photos of Mandot in the collection so far.
  • Richard Norton said:
    I started a biography in Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Mandot
  • Richard Norton said:
    I found his World War I draft registration:
  • Paul Mandot said:
    This is the New Orleans boxer. He was my great uncle and i have the original photos
  • Holly Mandot said:
    Uncle Joe😌 from New Orleans not the one from Los Angelel.