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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.

This must have been taken sometime in 1916. Olympic was chartered by the Canadian government in that year for troop transport and was still painted in wartime grey with blackened funnels (as shown). In 1917, and until the end of the war, she was painted in dazzle camouflage.

James Mogey Thanks for catching this for us - the date has been updated here and in our database.

Definitely 1916, probably October, as this image closely matches one in the archives of the Cape Breton Military History Collections, found here.
www.capebretonmilitaryhistory.com/collections/main-theme-...

LoricTheMad Thanks for the additional information! We've updated the date to reflect the likelihood of the photo being taken in October of 1916.

www.rbs.com/heritage/people/connop-guthrie.html "Sir Connop Guthrie (1882-1945) was a public servant and entrepreneur, who served as chairman of North Central Wagon Company, 1928-39."

They arrived on the Olympic on May 11, 1921. "Frederick Benson, a banker of London, came over on the Olympic, accompanied by a group of financial men who are to attend conferences in this country for the further development of timber tract of 450 square miles in British Columbia. Mr. Benson was accompanied by Sir Connop Guthrie, former representative of the British Ministry of Shipping in this city." New-York tribune., May 12, 1921, Page 3, col. 1 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1921-05-12/ed-...