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Capt. B.H. Tillman - NEWPORT (LOC)

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  • Terrific Lake said:
    great shot
  • swanq said:
    According to NYT on March 9. 1913, query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E0DE7DE1F3AE633A... Tillman commanded the schoolship Newport and on March 29, 1913 (two days before the date on the negative of 3/31/13) there were to be the fourth annual athletic games of the New York Nautical School on the Recreation Pier at the end of East 24th St.
  • Barbara (LOC P&P) said:
    swanq: Thanks! The evidence supplied by the article, combined with the date on the negative, makes it a good bet the date is March 1913. We'll adjust the source data and reload to Flickr.

Senator Tillman (LOC)

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  • Joe said:
    He's the cheerful looking fellow nearest the camera. Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847-1918) was a U.S. Senator from South Carolina, from 1895 until his death in 1918. He gained the sobriquet "Pitchfork Ben" after threatening from the Senate floor to "...poke old [President] Grover [Cleveland] with a pitchfork...." Prior to his time in the Senate, he had been Governor of South Carolina from 1890 to 1894. During the period after the Civil War, he had been the leader of a paramilitary group called the Red Shirts, which had terrorized and sometimes murdered Republicans and African Americans. He was an advocate of lynching. There is a statue of him outside the South Carolina Statehouse. Fairly decent biographical sketch at Wikipedia.
  • The Library of Congress said:
    Thanks! We'll add the additional names to the source data and reload the description.
  • JGT4 said:
    "terrorized and sometimes murdered Republicans and African Americans. He was an advocate of lynching. There is a statue of him outside the South Carolina Statehouse" So in other words he's a typical Democrat
  • John said:
    South Carolina's disgrace

Capt. W.C. Schauffler Jr. [& Lt. F.A. Tillman] (LOC)

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  • addadada said:
    awesome heroes
  • B-59 said:
    William G. Schauffler www.earlyaviators.com/eschauff.htm
  • Art Siegel said:
    Caption from Catalogue of official A.E.F. photographs (1919): "Capt. W. C. Schauffler, Jr. (standing), and Lieut. Fred A. Tillman in observer's seat of one of Ninetieth Aero Squadron planes. Lieut. Tillman is son of late Senator Tillman. Plane shows insignia of squadron, called " Pair-a-Dice " Squadron. Gun is a double Lewis machine gun. Ninetieth Aero Squadron, Seventy- ninth Division. Bethelainville, Meuse, France. November 18, 1918. " archive.org/stream/cu31924027944598#page/n407/mode/2up
  • thegreatlandoni said:
    I immediately recognized the plane as a Salmson 2A2 because I built a scale model of one for our museum. The 1918 Salmson 2A2
  • Art Siegel said:
    This photo reprinted in Illustrated World, May, 1919. books.google.com/books?id=Q58oAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA356&l...