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19 photos tagged strong, from 6 members of Flickr Commons.

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1900

2022

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21% of these photos are geotagged.

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State Library of Queensland 3 photos
SDASM Archives 2 photos
National Library of Ireland on The Commons 1 photo
U.S. National Archives 1 photo
Cloyne and District Historical Society 1 photo

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Portrait of Mrs. Gertrude Steindl and baby, ca.1900 from State Library of Queensland uploaded February 2023
Miller School - 1917 from Cloyne and District Historical Society uploaded September 2022
Ten lords a' leaping (one brave German Shepherd) from State Library of Queensland uploaded October 2020
Peggy Ryans striking a pose from State Library of Queensland uploaded March 2020
air mail collection image from SDASM Archives uploaded December 2018
AL_005C_018_Admiral Moffett with officers from SDASM Archives uploaded September 2013
Morris Levine, 212 Park Street. 11 years old and sells papers every day--been selling five years. Makes 50 cents Sundays and 30 cents other days. Location: Burlington, Vermont (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded September 2012
April 6, 1915 from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded April 2012
Benj. Strong Jr. (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded November 2011
Margaret Ober as Ortrud (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded May 2010
Mechanical Helper, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 1940 - 1945 from U.S. National Archives uploaded June 2009
Hermann Glassler (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2009
Nestor Tuominen (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded July 2008
Red Corridon [i.e., Corriden], Detr. 1912 (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded May 2008
This woman worker at the Vultee-Nashville is shown making final adjustments in the wheel well of an inner wing before the installation of the landing gear, Nashville, Tenn. This [is] one of the numerous assembly operations in connection with the mass prod from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008

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Benj. Strong Jr. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

swanq said:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Strong,_Jr. "Benjamin Strong, Jr. (December 22, 1872 – October 16, 1928) was an American banker. He served as Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for 14 years until his death. " www.ny.frb.org/aboutthefed/BStrongbio.html "Benjamin Strong Jr. was elected governor of the New York Fed at the Bank’s first board meeting on October 5, 1914, six weeks prior to the opening day. He was 41, and then president of Bankers Trust Co. of New York."
Anne (LOC P&P) said:
swanq: Thanks for providing us with more information on Strong. We'll include some of it next time we update.
sean mc namara said:
he looks like a rite prick

Cornell Varsity, 1911 (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

Dan4th Nicholas said:
This is crew, not swimming. Note the coxswain.
DAVE said:
Most of these men appear to be much older than normal university age.
swanq said:
NYT of march 1, 1911, page 12
nyti.ms/43Yr5rC
Lists last names of likely crew members.
New York Tribune of June 26, 1910, page 8
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1910-06-26/ed-...
Provides initials for some of the oarsmen.
Harvard Crimson from 23 May 1912
www.thecrimson.com/article/1912/5/23/triangular-race-in-b...
Also provides some initials
swanq said:
The cox will be the small guy in the front center. H. B. Kimball could be the Henry Joseph Kimball described at history.nycourts.gov/biography/henry-j-kimball/
The photo is from much later, but plausible. The dates of his time at Cornell certainly match.

I’ve just found that Shorpy posted this photo and got plenty of comments, including some with identification help
www.shorpy.com/node/10457
jonzdesire said:
💎💎💎💎

Mrs. Adolph Topperwein. [with gun] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

1 older comment, and then…
portilaj said:
Mrs. Topperwein is mentioned in some detail ( as part of "The Fabulous Topperweins" ) in the wikipedia entry on Exhibition Shooting: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhibition_shooting
Farm said:
Here is another interesting article: www.traphof.org/roadtoyesterday/november2000.htm
Art Siegel said:
she looks like annie oakley!
BigBean said:
Hi, this photo is being discussed in one of the projects in the Flickr Commons group, and we'd love to have this added to the group pool!
Graham Gudgin said:
What a wonderful photo! I've used it for an entry on my blog, "An Englishman In New Jersey" englishmannj.blogspot.com called "I Don't Get Guns, Cowboy" englishmannj.blogspot.com/2009/07/i-don-get-guns-cowboy.html

Graham.