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I think this is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Crooks "Richard Alexander Crooks (June 26, 1900 – September 29, 1972) was an American tenor and a leading singer at the New York Metropolitan Opera."

See oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3z09q52j/ for a finding aid to the Richard and Mildred Crooks Collection, ARS-0004, held by the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif. "Alexander Richard Crooks, tenor, was born in Trenton, N.J. on June 26, 1900. He toured widely, and sang with the Metropolitan Opera Company from 1933 to 1942. Crooks recorded extensively for the Victor record company, and was featured on several radio series from 1929 to 1945. He married his childhood friend Mildred Pine in 1921 and they had two children, Patricia and Richard, Jr. In retirement, the couple settled in Portola Valley. Richard Crooks died on September 30, 1972." His NYT obituary from Oct. 1, 1972 www.nytimes.com/1972/10/01/archives/richard-croohs-tenor-... indicates that "in 1925, Mr. Crooks left for Europe to further his studies and by 1927 he was singing opera in Hamburg and Berlin." "He leaves his wife, the former Mildred Wallace Pine ..." See: www.findagrave.com/memorial/201023835/richard-crooks www.findagrave.com/memorial/200991783/mildred-wallace-crooks

SS Cleveland www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1100677 Registered in Panama.

Thanks swanq, we'll add this info to the catalog record.

Negative dated 4-24-19. The former SS Cleveland, Hamburg America Line: "Service was suspended during World War I, during which Cleveland was kept at Hamburg. After that, the Cleveland was seized by the United States Government under Germany's reparations for the war, and in 1919 it was renamed USS Mobile (ID-4030)." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Cleveland "This former German passenger liner was in commission as a Navy troop transport from March to November 1919. " www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerica... Navy historical photos www.history.navy.mil/search.html?q=4043+mobile&category=

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Account of Mobile's arrival in New York, April 23, 1919 states 2,973 returning troops aboard, principally 130th Field Artillery, a Kansas unit of the 35th Division. query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A00EED71238EE...

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Thanks Art Siegel, we'll update the catalog record.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luisa_Tetrazzini
"Luisa Tetrazzini (29 June 1871 – 28 April 1940) was an Italian coloratura soprano of great international fame. Tetrazzini's voice was remarkable for its phenomenal flexibility, thrust, steadiness and thrilling tone. She enjoyed a highly successful operatic and concert career in Europe and America from the 1890s through to the 1920s, but her final years were marred by poverty and ill health."

We've seen her before

She went to Italy on the liner King Alexander, s. photo in The New York herald., May 23, 1921, SECTION FIVE ROTOGRAPHIC SECTION, Image 53 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045774/1921-05-23/ed-...

She sailed on May 12, s. The New York herald., May 12, 1921, Page 11, col. 2, "Mme. Tetrazzini to Sail To-day to Form Patriotic Society" chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045774/1921-05-12/ed-...