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Steel men -- James Bowron was the founder of the steel industry in Birmingham, AL, and a city father. www.lib.ua.edu/content/findingaids/pdf/mss_0193.pdf (Short bio on page 4) Farrell was president of US Steel at this time: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Farrell

Thanks rjones0856 for providing further information and the connection between the two men. We'll add their full names when we update the description. Also thanks to artolog for pointing out the date on the negative. We'll add that information, as well!

A Samuel J. Bailey was a witness in the case for dissolution of US Steel. See query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A05E5DC103AE633A... This case was likely the context for another picture in this batch, www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3491619442/in/s...

Looks like it says "Lindabury," and the picture is almost certainly related to this article: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9403E3DE173FE633A... All four of these men are named in the article as important players in a lawsuit to break up U.S. Steel.

An earlier NYT article from May 7, 1912 query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C06EEDC153CE6... has pictures of Brown, Dickinson, and Lindabury.

Thanks for the additional information. We'll update the source data with a probable date range for this.

Richard Vliet Lindabury (1850-1925), was the chief counsel for the steel corporation Henry P. Brown, the special examiner Colton J. M. Dickinson, the US prosecuting attorney "Hearings in the Government's suit for the dissolution of the United States Steel Corporation were begun yesterday before Henry T. Brown, the examiner appointed by the Circuit Court for the District of New Jersey, in Room 210 of the Custom House. " Here is the article mentioned above: