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MORRISTOWN HORSE SHOW HELD IN RAIN; Children's Pony Jumping Class One of the New Features of Exhibition New York Times, 8 October 1915: "Five children, none over 15 years, took part in the pony jumping class...Miss Ruth Brady rode Miss Helen Fiske's Maidstone, with which she took the reserve...." Could this portrait be the same equestrian Miss Ruth Brady, a few years later? www.christies.com/lotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=...

Luther and Nicholas Tucker were the sons of Carll Tucker (1881-1956; Yale 1904) and the former Marcia Myers Brady (b. 1884). The Tuckers were members of the Rumson Country Club of Rumson NJ. Given Marcia's maiden name, it's probably reasonable to assume that the Brady children and Tucker children here were cousins. Luther Tucker (1909-2000) also attended Yale, and earned a divinity degree from the Episcopal Theological School. He was based in Shanghai while regional secretary of th World Student Christian Association (1938-1940), and became rector of the Indian Hill Church in Cincinnati. He married Josephine Pullman, and was father of four (Elizabeth, Marcia, Naomi, and Luther Jr.). He died while swimming off Old Lyme in the summer of 2000, age 91. articles.courant.com/2000-07-25/news/0007250608_1_seven-g... Nicholas Brady Tucker (1910-1926) died in New Hampshire at age 16, while a student at St. Paul's School. archives.sps.edu/common/text.asp?Img=5155&Keyword=&am... Columnist Jane Bryant Quinn married their nephew, Carll Tucker, in 2008: www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/fashion/weddings/15QUINN.html

Also, six children, but only five names? So one of these is a mystery girl!

Millicent Vernon Hammond Fenwick (1910-1992) became a Congresswoman in 1975. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millicent_Fenwick The child next to her might be her sister Mary Stevens Hammond.

Luther Tucker is seen in his riding outfit in www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/BE047410/... 7/28/1915-Long Branch, NJ: Master Luther Tucker with "Patsy," photographed at the 22nd annual show of the Monmouth County Horse Show Association at Hollywood Park, Long Branch, NJ.

Amazing. Hollywood always forgets to include bicycles in period films of this era.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called El mundo en bicicletas, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

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Australian shearer's bicycles which came into use in the late 1890s were more than a form of efficient transportation. When it caned hard with rain and the sheep were too wet to shear, work-horse bicycles became racing bikes, on other days races for shearers were organised events at local race tracks. The rim of one dispirited shearer's bicycle became a place for him to scratch his epitaph. Traversing vast distances on dusty outback tracks over thousands of kilometers, sometimes across more than one state was the norm for many shearers. For others, the bicycle was the means to get to the shearing shed the nearest home, and back each day. Bicycle riding shearers drew the attention of the small town of Wanaaring's correspondent in northwestern New South Wales in 1899. Shearers choosing bikes as their chief mode of transport were becoming the majority over horse riding shearers, even in a town which is today considered "remote" - "I notice this season very few shearers with horses. The bicycle has superseded them. On a rough calculation, I should say that over £2000 in bikes have been spent in the district this shearing, and consignments arrive by every coach from Bourke." Source: veloaficionado.com/blog/australias-bicycle-riding-shearer...

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In 1913, which appears to be the year in which most of these Bain photos were taken, Frank Tucker was appointed the chairman of a committee (in New York State) to investigate problems relating to the support and welfare of dependent widows and their dependent children. Here is Tucker's report, which was published in 1914: www.archive.org/stream/reportofinvestig00newyiala#page/n0...