- Date inscribed on negative, in reverse: 5/25/11. - Wystan
Sec'y Stimson, Gen. F.D. Grant (LOC)
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Sec'y Stimson, Gen. F.D. Grant
1911 May 25 (date created or published later by Bain)
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Service on the
negative.
Photo shows General Frederick Dent Grant, commanding officer on
Governors Island, with Secretary of War Henry I. Stimson, probably on
the occasion of the annual lawn party sponsored by the Army Relief
Society, which raised money for widows and orphans of officers and
enlisted men of the regular army. (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.09244
Call Number: LC-B2- 2202-13
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Comments and faves
undeadsinatra (59 months ago | reply)
The date at the top says Feb 25, 1911.
I beleive that's General Frederick Dent Grant (son of General Ulysses S. Grant) and Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson.
Grant sucumbed to cancer on April 11, 1912.
He Who Must Be Named (58 months ago | reply)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Dent_Grant
pixeljones (58 months ago | reply)
Left: Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson (1867-1950)
See also this picture of Secy Stimson & Ge. Grant at lawn party.
It is interesting that hanging behind Stimson is the 45-star (pre-Oklahoma) U.S. flag which was replaced by the 46-star version in 1908. Maybe the obscured flag on the right is the contemporary 46-star flag displayed beside the "old" one.
In a year's time from this photo, the U.S. would have the 48-star flag that would remain unchanged until 1959.
Harry Angstrom (58 months ago | reply)
Maybe its the Fourth of July?
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Wystan (39 months ago | reply)
The lawn party was an annual fundraising event for the Army Relief Society, which provided for widows and orphans of officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army.
General Frederick Dent Grant, the Army's commanding officer on Governor's Island, was the host on this occasion. General Grant, the son of former President U. S. Grant, resided on the island, and died there, in 1912.
We have been misreading the date on this photo as February, but in fact the 1911 party was held on May 25: that's a "5" in the date, not a "2."
In response to an email query, Mike Shaver, National Park Service Ranger/Historian at the Governors Island National Monument, provided the date of May 25, 1911, for this event, and also noted that Stimson had been appointed Secretary of War only a few weeks earlier, in that same month.
Here is a photo of the lawn party, going full blast:
www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/216 3472204/in/p...
Anne (LOC P&P) (39 months ago | reply)
Wystan: Thanks for bringing our attention to the date here! We'll fix the record next time we update.
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