ussteel

He doesn't look like one of the richest people in the world.

Date written on negative is 10/19/12. NYT of October 20, 1912 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=980CE4D6113AE633A... reported that Carnegie had arrived back from his summer holiday in Scotland on the White Star Liner, the Baltic.

swanq: Thanks! We'll fix the date in the source data and reload the description.

The fact that Carnegie doesn't look like one of the richest people in the world is why he was able to become so rich. He focused on his work, not on his social standing. He concentrated on constantly having an advantage over all of the competition.

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...

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!