- R.A.C. Smith - swanq
Mayor's committee on Moltke (LOC)
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Mayor's committee on Moltke
[1912 June]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Photo shows Robert A.C. Smith, Commissioner of Docks, and other men on
deck of the German ship Moltke. List of people appears in the New York
Times, June 10, 1912. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.13307
Call Number: LC-B2- 2728-10
Comments and faves
swanq (43 months ago | reply)
See www.statemaster.com/encyclopedia/SMS-Moltke-( 1910)
"She was the first and only German capital ship to ever visit the United States. On May 11, 1912 she left Kiel, accompanied by light cruisers SMS Stettin and SMS Bremen, and arrived off Hampton Roads, Virginia, on May 30, 1912. After touring the East Coast for two weeks, she returned to Kiel on June 24."
NYT of June 10, 1912
query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C05E 3D7153CE633A...
places the ship in New York and the visit of the committee on June 9, 1912
Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (40 months ago | reply)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.A.C._Smith
Robert A.C. Smith (February 22, 1857 - July 27, 1933) was the Commissioner of Docks in New York City.
Anne (LOC P&P) (40 months ago | reply)
Thanks. We'll add a note here about Smith next time we update the description.
dullshick added this photo to their favorites. (17 months ago)