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Paul Drennan Cravath (1861-1940) was a prominent New York attorney and a power in the Republican party for several decades. The son of militant abolitionists (his father, Erastus Cravath, was the founding president of Fisk University), Cravath graduated from Oberlin in 1882 and from Columbia College law school in 1886. He married Agnes Huntington, a former opera singer, in 1892. His law firm, now Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, remains one of the most succesful in the world. Vera Agnes Huntington Cravath (b.1896), who appears with him in this photo, was his daughter. The occasion was probably a horse race or horse show. Both Cravath and his daughter, an avid horsewoman, exhibited show horses during the period when this photo was taken. Vera Cravath married at least twice: to Lt. James S. Larkin, about 1917, and to William Francis Gibbs in 1927.

Thanks! We'll add a subject note to the source catalog to flesh out the names, and then link here for the additional information. There's at least one New York Times article from 1912 about a horse show they attended, query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60D11F9395517738...

Vera Cravath Gibbs (1895-1985) She died in Boston in July of 1985 and was born on August 28, 1895.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Drennan_Cravath

The New York Times, Wednesday, August 18, 1901, Page 13: ARBUCKLE'S FLOATING HOTEL DISMANTLED Lack of Patronage Caused the Company to Go Out of Business. John Arbuckle's Floating Hotel Company has gone out of business, after a brief existence of not quite four weeks. The failure of the scheme is directly due, so it is said, to the unappreciative and conservative spirit of the people of New York and Brooklyn, who preferred the comfort of their homes, even on a hot night, to the promise of a cool night on a sailing vessel out on the lower bay.

Looks like this is from a bit later, though. NY Times Thursday August 27, 1914: FLOATING HOTEL TO CLOSE Notices were posted yesterday in the Arbuckle Floating Hotel, which is the old ship Jacob A. Stamler, moored at the foot of East Twenty-third Street, that the hotel would be closed on Sept. 12 next. The fifty or more young women who live in the hotel were downcast when they read the notice.

Highly recommended reading.

LOC's earlier-posted photo of Arbuckle's Floating Hotel, with comments: Another exterior view: The tidy kitchen: A floating dormitory:

Thanks Wystan, reminds me to always do a LOC photostream search first!

Mario García Menocal, President of Cuba, 1913 - 1921

Wikipedia article

Infrogmation: Thank you for the additional information on Pres. Menocal. We will add a few more details when we update the record.