whitman

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Waking Into the Dream, and we'd love to have this added to the group! great

With such seriousness abound, it became necessary to invent superman.

What an incredible image!

Serious mens are serious. :)

Charles Seymour Whitman (1868-1947) served as Republican Governor of New York from January 1915 to December 1918. He was also a delegate to Republican National Convention from New York in 1916. Whitman graduated from Williams College, class of 1890. Prior to his election as governor, he served as a New York City municipal judge and as Manhattan District Attorney. As District Attorney, he gained national fame in prosecuting New York City Police Lt. Charles Becker for the July 16, 1912 murder of Times Square gambling house operator Herman Rosenthal in front of West 43rd Street's Hotel Metropole (owned by Lower East Side Tammany Hall leader "Big Tim" Sullivan). Later, as Governor, Whitman signed Becker's death warrant and presided over his electrocution. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_S._Whitman "Whitman May Lose More Witnesses. District Attorney Finds That Three Are Being Intimidated and Are Wavering." Source: New York Times; September 7, 1912 Weblink: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=980CE5D81630E233A... "District Attorney Whitman Following Trail Leading to Captains and Detectives. With Grand Juries here and in Lakewood, N.J., grinding out indictments against men who have been engaged in the business of stealing and selling automobiles, the situation here took a turn yesterday where it became probable that police officials, including half a dozen precinct Captains, would become involved." Source: New York Times; April 18, 1914 Weblink: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9803E7D81E39E633A...

Candidate (and winner) in the race for governor of New York: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_S._Whitman

Thanks rjones0856 for the full name and context for the photo. We'll add information when we update the description. (While checking in our Prints & Photographs Online Catalog to verify visually that this was Charles S. Whitman, I found not only a photograph of him in office--literally--but also some editorial cartoons commenting on his activities and World War I posters that bore his name: www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=%22whitman+charles%22+1868... -- a much documented fellow!)

There seems to be some confusion here: is this a polling place or a pooling place?

The caption is of course referring to two separate people. Mitchel was NYC mayor : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Purroy_Mitchel. Whitman (in the boater) was governor: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_S._Whitman