Jas. H. Hyde (LOC)
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Jas. H. Hyde
[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Photo shows businessman James Hazen Hyde (1876-1959). (Source: Flickr
Commons project, 2008)
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.12337
Call Number: LC-B2- 2615-3
Comments and faves
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captainslack (49 months ago | reply)
That's the creepiest looking guy I've seen in ages!
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dhd257 (48 months ago | reply)
I was scrolling through the photos under the Library of Congress, and none of them really had me stop and double-take until I saw this one! I totally agree with the comment above in that this is one of the creepiest people I have ever seen, but beyond that, this picture is ghastly! It looks like the man and the entire room itself is covered with ghosts.
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dimpz898 (48 months ago | reply)
This man seems like he has been possessed by some spirit. Just look at his eyes. They look so scary! The main question that I have to ask is why one hand is in the air for no reason. He doesn't even have anything in his hand! Why is he holding it up?
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Barbara (LOC P&P) (47 months ago | reply)
A Flickr member identified him as James Hazen Hyde in a related photo: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/304 7668569/
carninscatola (36 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called I blinked my eyes and you were gone, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
leff added this photo to his favorites. (31 months ago)
Wystan (27 months ago | reply)
Hyde inherited the world's biggest life insurance company, but lost control of it as the result of a public investigation in 1905. Hyde then left the country, so when these photographs were made, in 1913, he was living in exile in Paris.
Here is some biographical info, from an online description of James Hazen Hyde's papers in the collections of the New York Historical Society (the New York Public Library also has a collection of his papers):
"James Hazen Hyde (1876-1959) was a businessman, francophile, and expatriate. He graduated from Harvard in 1898. In 1899 he was left in charge of his father's (Henry Baldwin Hyde, 1834-1899) life insurance company, the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. In 1905 Hyde lost control of the company in a publicity scandal that resulted in an investigation of the insurance industry by the New York State. In late December 1905 Hyde sailed for Paris, where he lived until the Nazi occupation.
"Collection consists of correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks and other papers from 1891-1941 pertaining to his interest in Franco-American relations, e.g., Fédération de l'Alliance, Cercle Français de l'Université Harvard, American Field Service Fellowships, American lecture tours by French professors, his work in the American Red Cross in France during World War I, his social life, anecdotes and comments about prominent persons, especially in French government, military, and educational circles, personal affairs, etc."
Wystan (27 months ago | reply)
Another Bain/LOC photo of Hyde in his library:
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