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The "unidentified woman" in the photo is Amelia Earhart aboard the SS President Roosevelt during her return to the United States after her first flight - as a passenger - across the Atlantic in 1928. Sitting next to her is Captain of the President Roosevelt, Harry Manning. Earhart and Manning would quickly form a friendship aboard the ship, and she would eventually ask him to be her navigator for her initial attempt at circumnavigating the globe in 1937. This attempt was aborted in Hawaii, after Earhart ground looped her Lockheed 10E Electra (NR16020) at Luke Field on Ford Island, Pearl Harbor on March 20, 1937. Manning suffered only a bruised elbow during the accident. This incident caused significant damage to the aircraft, which would require repair, delaying Earhart's trip an additional three months. Due to the delay (and some claim other factors), Manning was unable to join Earhart on this second (ill-fated) attempt. See: tighar.org/wiki/Captain_Harry_Manning tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Documents/Luke_Field...

Negative dated 4-24-19. The former SS Cleveland, Hamburg America Line: "Service was suspended during World War I, during which Cleveland was kept at Hamburg. After that, the Cleveland was seized by the United States Government under Germany's reparations for the war, and in 1919 it was renamed USS Mobile (ID-4030)." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Cleveland "This former German passenger liner was in commission as a Navy troop transport from March to November 1919. " www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerica... Navy historical photos www.history.navy.mil/search.html?q=4043+mobile&category=

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Account of Mobile's arrival in New York, April 23, 1919 states 2,973 returning troops aboard, principally 130th Field Artillery, a Kansas unit of the 35th Division. query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A00EED71238EE...

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Thanks Art Siegel, we'll update the catalog record.

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.