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Found an 1912 NYT article about Col. Edgar Z. Steever's promotion to Brigadier General (pdf) during the Mexican Revolution and the accompanying cross-border troubles. He was born in Pennsylvania and graduated second in his class at West Point. He was commissioned a Second Lieutanant in 1871. He fought in 34 battles and skirmishes in the Philippines. BG Steever was forced to retire (pdf) in 1913.

shouldn't the title be "Comd G" instead of "Comp. G"?

yeknod: Thanks for noticing the transcription error. We changed the title to transcribe the letters in the negative rather than the caption card.

If he became Brigadier General in 1912, wouldn't this have to be 1910-1911? I mean, wouldn't they have mentioned that level of rank? Even whether they wuld write that or not that remains murky, clearly it could not have been later than 1913 if that was when he retired.

Could this have been at Fort Bliss?

More about Hilltop Park: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilltop_Park

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Lost Ballparks, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

The title of this picture should be Albert "Cozy" Dolan not Dolin the bottom of the picture says Dolan, N.Y.A. www.baseball-reference.com/d/dolanco02.shtml

jesuswtf: Thanks for the tip! It does look like we have a typo in our caption. We’ll need to change the source data so that we can keep the information we show here in Flickr and in our own catalog ( http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html) in sync.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Public_Library en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_bond

This was part of the Third Liberty Loan Drive, which began April 6, 1918 and ended May 4th. The caption on the right side of the negative seems to say "Col. Prescott sells bonds." "The Stage Women's War Relief Association maintained a Liberty Theatre in front of the Public Library on 5th Avenue and 42nd Street in New York City where for six hours daily prominent speakers and actors interested the public. For the last two weeks of the Loan this Society sent out a traveling theatre to visit the crowded districts of the city each day. Actors and actresses of importance spoke and gave performances from this theatre as an appeal to buy Liberty Bonds. In various cities this Society was of great aid to the Woman's Liberty Loan Committee." books.google.com/books?id=3Y43AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA66&lp... Report of National woman's liberty loan committee for the first - [fourth and victory] loan campaigns, 1918. Additional photos: books.google.com/books?id=z-BNAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA335&l... A photo of Geraldine Farrar singing here has the following caption" "At this corner, Fifth Avenue and Forty second Street, New York, where surging thousands daily pass and repass, war interests found a constant centre. The plaza of the Library became a national market-place. For the Third Liberty Loan campaign a miniature Liberty Theatre was erected at the top of the steps. There famous singers and eloquent speakers assisted in drawing crowds and selling bonds. Mme Farrar is here singing "The Star Spangled Banner."] books.google.com/books?id=zT0QAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1220&...

Richard Norton and Art Siegel: Thanks. We will include some additional details next time we update.