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Guide tothe Pirie MacDonald Portrait Photograph Collection
[1885]-1942
(Bulk 1900-1942)
PR-039

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Descriptive Summary

Creator: MacDonald, Pirie, 1867-1942
Title: Pirie MacDonald Portrait Photograph Collection
Dates: [1885]-1942(Bulk 1900-1942)
Abstract: The collection consists of 500 portraits of men made in New York Citybetween 1900 and 1942. Dramatic lighting characterizes MacDonald's soft focushead-and-shoulder portraits, which are contact prints from glass negatives.
Quantity: 29 linear feet, 25 boxes
Call Phrase: PR-039
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Biographical Note

Ian PirieMacDonald was born in Chicago on January 27, 1867, nine days after his mother arrived in thiscountry from Scotland. The eldest of four children, he left his formal schooling at the age of 11and took on a series of jobs to help support the family. In 1883 he began an apprenticeship withportrait photographer Frank Forshew (1827-1895) in Hudson, New York. By 1890, MacDonaldhad opened his own portrait studio in Albany, New York, a larger and more prosperous citynorth of Hudson that offered greater opportunity for business. After a decade of success there,he had earned both a substantial reputation and a healthy bank account, conditions that allowedhim to be able to specialize. MacDonald chose to henceforth photograph only men, a decisionthat he upheld for the rest of his career and included a moratorium on photographing the femalemembers of his own family. This change in focus also inspired him to move to New York Citywhere he would have a patron pool sizeable enough to support his specialty. In a 1942interview, MacDonald described his choice as "temperamentally fitted." His stamp on eachportrait he made from 1900 on read: Pirie MacDonald. Photographer of Men, New York.

During his Albany years, MacDonald's work was shown in exhibitions in New York, theMidwest, and Paris, including regular appearances in the annual exhibitions of thePhotographers Association of America, of which he was a member. By the end of his life, hehad participated in more than forty exhibitions and salons in cities around the United States andin Canada, India, England, Ireland, Belgium, Holland, Germany and France. He was representedin exhibitions at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904) and the Century of ProgressExposition (1933), and served as a juror for six American and international exhibitions between1906 and 1938. The verso of the mount board of his photographs listed thirty-three medals andawards won for his work.

A long-time member of the Professional PhotographersSociety of New York and the Camera Club of New York, MacDonald was also a fellow of theRoyal Photographic Society of Great Britain. He was active in a number of non-photographicorganizations as well, including the Rotary Club of New York, the Boy Scouts of America, andthe Adirondack Mountain Club, serving as an officer in each. In addition, he was the author andpublisher of a drill manual for the Boy Scouts.

Pirie MacDonald suffered a cerebralhemorrhage at his country home, White Oak Shade, in New Canaan, Connecticut, while on anouting there with his grandson; he died four days after, on April 22, 1942, in a New Yorkhospital. His death occasioned a full-column obituary in The New York Times accompanied bya self-portrait he made in 1940 (see Box 10, folder 246). In addition to his grandson,MacDonald was survived by his wife Emelie Van Dusen, a native of Hudson, whom he marriedin 1890, and a daughter and son-in-law, Patricia and Everett Tutchings.

PirieMacDonald was highly regarded by his peers, as several articles on him in professional journalsattest. A quote from a posthumous tribute by J. Dudley Johnston published in the PhotographicJournal provides a summary of professional opinion: "He was a true artist, a marveloustechnician, and a student of humanity, with a penetrating insight into human nature andcharacter."

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Scope and Content Note

The Pirie MacDonald Portrait Photograph Collection spans the period from ca. 1885 to 1942 andcontains material primarily relating to MacDonald's photographic career in New York. Thereare no personal or family papers, and no business records beyond a set of studio patron cards thathold limited financial information. The collection is divided into two series: PortraitPhotographs (1900-1942); and Documentary Material (ca. 1885-1942). The bulk of thecollection, nearly five hundred portrait photographs, was given to The New-York HistoricalSociety on January 27, 1943, the 75th anniversary of MacDonald's birth, by his widow, daughterand son-in-law. The family made additional gifts of material during 1943 and again in 1946 and1951. In accordance with his wishes as outlined in his will, all of MacDonald's negatives weredestroyed within a year of his death.

Series I. Portrait Photographs consists of 494portraits of prominent men created during MacDonald's four decades of work in New York City. The earliest image in the collection, of banker Spencer Trask, was made on November 26, 1900,and the last, of industrialist George Newcombe, was taken on April 18, 1942, just four daysbefore MacDonald's sudden death. Each of the photographs is stamped along the lower edge ofthe image: PIRIE MACDONALD/PHOTOGRAPHER OF MEN/NEW YORK, with either blackor white pigment applied to the raised letters.

The photographs are contact prints. They are in two formats and each is mounted on four-ply board from MacDonald's studio; theverso of each board is printed with a list of his exhibitions and awards. The smaller of the twosizes are 9 by 6 inch prints that are affixed to 15-1/2 x 11 inch boards; the larger are 13 by 10inch prints on 20 by 15-1/2 inch boards. On the verso of each photograph's mount is a labeldescribing the sitter and his life dates and occupation, with the date of the photograph and asequential number. The paper labels and photograph numbers were applied just after thecollection came to the Historical Society, at which time an exhibition was mounted and a smallbooklet was published, List of 500 Portraits of Men Made In New York City 1900-1942 By PirieMacDonald Photographer-of-Men in the Collections of The New-York Historical Society (NewYork: 1943) That sequential numbering system has been preserved in this finding aid as theprint's folder number.

While the MacDonald studio patron cards reveal a wider patronpool, the photographs chosen for The New-York Historical Society's MacDonald archive arepredominantly well-known men in the arts, business and industry, education, government, andreligion, a virtual "who's who" of important figures spanning the first half of the twentiethcentury. Portraits of government officials were made at various times in their careers, and rangefrom presidents (Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson) and governors (Charles Hughes,Nathan Miller, Gifford Pinchot, Charles Whitman) to sitting New York City policecommissioner Arthur Woods (1917) and mayor George McClellan (1905). University presidentsand faculty members from Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, New York University, Vassarand other schools are represented in the collection. Prominent figures in religion includeWilliam Ralph Inge, the dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, among a sizable selection ofarchbishops, bishops, canons, priests, and rabbis. The automobile industries are represented byportraits of founders Chrysler, Firestone, Ford, and Sloan; merchant families represented includeField, Hoving, Pirie, Stern, Straus and Wanamaker. Equal numbers of bankers, diplomats,jurists, lawyers, and railroad men, appear, as well as a smattering of aviators, explorers,chemical and civil engineers, metallurgists, and surgeons. But perhaps the largest sector ofsitters is made up of men prominent in the humanities: actors, architects, authors, composers,critics, designers, editors, engravers, illustrators, musicians, painters, playwrights, poets,printmakers and sculptors -- American, English, Irish and otherwise. This choice perhapsreflects MacDonald's personal interests; though his formal education ended early, he was an avidreader and traveler and had, since boyhood, developed a special love for the theatre. The lonephotographic luminary is Antoine Lumiére (1846-1911), a pioneer in the development of colorphotography, whom MacDonald captured in 1907 (at no charge to his sitter, according toLumiere's patron card).

Most of MacDonald's portraits are fairly straightforward headand shoulder shots, ranging from the traditional three-quarter pose that he used with MorganJoseph O'Brien (1907) to the tighter, more modern close-up portrait of Sean O'Casey (1934). Although artistic in nature, the photographs generally contain no studio props, furniture,accouterments or backdrops. Occasionally MacDonald and the sitter would insert anoccupational clue in an image: wood engraver Timothy Cole (1915) holds a pencil in his portraitand violinist Michael Posner (1919) holds a violin in his; author Owen Wister (1915) is seated ata table with an open book; illustrator Percy Crosby (1935) sits at a drawing table. For thosewithout props, presentation varies widely and though several portraits do reflect something ofthe sitter's stature, some others belie their patrons: for instance, the classic, confident andentirely appropriate "captain of industry" poses are used for railroad builder John McDonald(1903), merchant John Wanamaker (1909), and financier Felix Warburg (1913), while muralpainter Ezra Winter (1938) appears very much a business-suited businessman in his photograph,and a painterly portrait of Thomas Collier Platt (1903) barely suggests a career in politics.

MacDonald's image presentation varies as well and defies classification by period, schoolor trend. He created a grainy, atmospheric portrait of Booth Tarkington (1919) and a sharplyfocused portrait of John Taylor Pirie (1905), managed both a fine and soft focus in his portrait ofWalter Eaton (1931), and portrayed Norman bel Geddes (1930) in profile yet with his facecompletely out of focus. Perhaps MacDonald's greatest genius was in his use of lighting tocreate a certain glisten and gleam that made his portraits so notably rich. He captured clothingfabrics perfectly -- the tweed and satin on Colgate Hoyt (1901) and Marshall Field, Sr. (1903),the fine lines woven in Vernon Davis's robes (1908), for instance -- and found other tinyhighlights that further defined and distinguished his work, such as the diplomatic cross onMaurice Egan (1921) and the wires of John Flanagan's eyeglasses (1933). MacDonald producedstylish work as well: he employed Troy Kinney's hat brim (1931) as a prominent design feature,and used Noel Coward's own shadow (1928) to make a double portrait of the writer.

The treatment of several of the portraits in the collection, primarily of those of artists, is alsonotable. MacDonald simulated a linen-textured paper finish by printing the negatives of paintersHoward Giles (1914), Leonard Ochtman (1913), Will Low (1913), Henry Poore (1914), andGeorge Torrye (1915) through a woven screen, while some others were exposed through whatappears to have been a knit screen.

Only one photograph in the collection was signedby the sitter: Van Wyck Brooks's signature and the date, 1926, appear on the mount below hisportrait.

Technical notes on MacDonald's practices can be found in various articleswritten on the photographer by his peers and coworkers, most notably "Pirie MacDonald As IKnew Him" by Louis Garcia (in The National Photographer, June 1951). Garcia worked as aprinter in the MacDonald studio. His article includes details of the studio operation, from typesand brands of lenses and studio lights to the temperature of developing chemicals used, all ofwhich helped MacDonald to achieve his uniquely warm portraits with their beautiful toneseparation and glistening highlights. Writings on MacDonald can be found in The New-YorkHistorical Society Print Room clipping files, along with other biographical material on thephotographer.

Basic biographical information on the sitters was gleaned from thecollection catalogue created by The New-York Historical Society in 1943, as well as from thelabels on the verso of each portrait. It was updated, simplified or condensed when possible forthis finding aid; for instance, a man who served both as a senator and governor is now listed as apolitician. Life span dates were added, when possible, for those patrons who died after 1942.

Series II. Documentary Material (ca. 1885-1942) is arranged in two subseries:Ephemera (ca. 1885-1942) and Card Files (1900-1942).

The first subseries is agrouping of paper documents and copy photographs from MacDonald's studios in Albany andNew York. It includes announcement and exhibit signs formerly hung in the New York studio(probably in a show window), such as one that accompanied a display of portraits of NoelCoward and Alfred Lunt during the Broadway run of "Design for Living" in 1933. A pair ofsigns advertises that the MacDonald studio would remain open for a limited time after the deathof the proprietor, after which all negatives were to be destroyed. There is a small selection ofletterhead, envelopes, stickers, seals and various forms used in the New York studio, as well asseveral pieces of original calligraphy and graphic designs for MacDonald's Albany operation. The latter includes drawings by Albany artist Charles Selkirk (1855-1923) for corporateidentifications; Selkirk created the Japonisme-inspired logogram used by MacDonald forstickers, and may have also designed his stylish and distinctive letterhead (Box 22, folder 500). A undated mission statement, calligraphed with a decorated first initial, titled "The Note ofDistinction," sets out MacDonald's intentions for his New York patrons; the fact that it ismounted on artists' board much like a mechanical suggests that it may have been reproduced foradvertising purposes. A single battered printed card exists to record both a portrait sketch ofPirie MacDonald by Waltman (possibly Harry Franklin Waltmann (1871-1951) and a personalcredo which MacDonald inscribed below his image: "yes: its better to have Ideals, fight for them-- and lose -- than to be a Neuter!" A miscellaneous ephemera folder holds two promotional printpieces directed at women and another offering framing services.

Elevencommercial-quality copy prints made by the MacDonald firm are included in the Ephemerasubseries. They were created for half-tone reproduction purposes and are stamped withMacDonald's credit line. An interesting single-sheet photographic print holds six miniatureportraits of unidentified Albany residents presumably made prior to MacDonald's arrival in NewYork City.

The second subseries, Card Files, consists of six sets of 3 x 5 index cardsarranged in three sections: Studio Patron Cards and Miscellaneous Cards, and Negative Index Cards. The first set, StudioPatron Cards, is approximately 2,800 printed forms that record information on MacDonald'ssitters and the photography work produced for each. The cards are filed alphabetically bypatron, and list: MacDonald's negative number; patron's name; date of sitting, patron's address;order information (date of orders, what was ordered, dates the order was finished and delivered)and financial information (charges, paid and unpaid).

Except for patron and negativenumber, not all categories are filled in on each card, although nearly all the cards do include thepatron's address, the date and some order information. The first two digits in MacDonald'snegative number (which are generally four or five digits) reflect the year in which thephotographs were taken and so can provide an approximate date of an image if no other date isgiven on the card. Occasionally there is also a clue to a patron's occupation (for instance, theaddress includes a title and corporation or firm). Several of MacDonald's sitters were not fromthe New York metropolitan area or the United States, so their cards will often include a localclub or hotel of temporary residence as an address.

The order information is written inan in-house code that describes the quantity, process and format of work produced. Most of theorders were for "WB 69" or "WB 1013" prints, indicating that they are 9 by 6 inch or 13 by 10inch warm black contact printed portraits. A very few cards specify carbon and bromide printsbut the sizes are always the same format. Many of the cards carry a note of "India" whichindicates that MacDonald chose Indiatone, a high silver-content and expensive portrait papermade by the ANSCO Company. A letter of the alphabet (A through M, presumably referring toa specific pose) usually follows that notation, as well as notes for finishing the print such as "fixhair," "fix shadow of glasses," or "remove scar." In addition, framing specifications aresometimes included; "Whistler" and "Chamberlain" are two favorites mentioned. Anotherfrequent notation on the cards is "Institute" indicating that a portrait was sent to the NationalInstitute of Arts and Letters (now the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters).

The studio patron cards include records on the nearly five hundred photographs in TheNew-York Historical Society's Pirie MacDonald Portrait Photograph Collection, a speciallyselected group of men prominent in the arts, business, government, and religion. The remainderof the cards reveal the geographical breadth of MacDonald's patrons, and show that he had anational audience of sitters that included men who traveled to his New York studio from smallercities around the northeast (from Washington and Baltimore to Buffalo and Syracuse, andthroughout New England) as well as the Midwest (several industrialists from Chicago, Detroitand St. Louis, and businessman from Ohio, Nebraska and Minnesota), Texas, California andHawaii. Typical of these executives might be John Omwake, the president of the U.S. PlayingCard Company in Cincinnati, who had a sitting in early December 1922. He ordered nine prints(three each of poses "B" "C" and "D") at a cost of $173, which were expressed to him in January1923. Undoubtedly there were good portrait photographers in Cincinnati, but Mr. Omwakechose MacDonald's studio and his multiple orders reflect that he was pleased with the results.

Two sets of index cards make up the second subseries Miscellaneous Cards, and theirpurposes are not clear. The first A through Z set of cards appear to be a set made of patronsincluded in the Historical Society's collection. The cards are white, blue and orange, and haveonly the sitter's name and occupation (i.e. Adams, Herbert, sculptor), and one or two uniquenumbers. One is MacDonald's negative number and the second is hyphenated (i.e. 20-5). Thatnumber's purpose is a mystery, but was perhaps a location code possibly for the gallery ofportraits MacDonald maintained on his studio walls (see Box 10, folder 249 to see one of thewalls as a backdrop to his self-portrait). A second and smaller set of cards, also arranged Athrough Z, are similar to the others. In both of these sets, the orange cards are recycled studiopatron cards from the 1940s whose backsides have been used for the current purpose. Thesepatrons do not appear in the previously described set of studio patron cards, so researcherslooking to document Pirie MacDonald patrons not in the aforementioned set might want tocheck the verso of all orange cards in the miscellaneous card sets as well.

The Negative Index Cards are filed in three sets as the MacDonald studio kept them. The first set covers negatives dated from 1901 through 1929 but is not complete for those dates. The second set convers negatives dated from 1909 through 1914, and the third covers 1914 through 1942. Within the sets, the cards are alphabetically arranged by sitter. In each set, the cards give only negative numbers, patron names, and patron addresses.

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Arrangement

Series I: Theportraits are arranged in two sets determined by their format: boxes 1 through 17 hold the 9 by 6inch portraits, and boxes 18 through 21 hold the larger portraits. Several of MacDonald'spatrons were photographed more than once so it is possible that portraits exist in both formats. As an example, Walter Damrosch sat for MacDonald in 1919 and 1936. The earlier portraitexists only in the 9 by 6 inch size, but there are copies of the 1936 portrait in both formats. Across-reference in Damrosch's entry leads the researcher also to folder 443 in box 19 where thelarger portrait is housed.

Prints also exist for variant poses of several of the men. Insuch cases, a brief description of the portrait is given in brackets to distinguish, for example inthe case of Harrison Fisher, a three-quarter pose from a profile pose. Six different portraits ofPirie MacDonald are in the collection, and each has been briefly described in the folder list todifferentiate one from another.

Series II. Documentary Material (ca. 1885-1942) isarranged in two subseries: Ephemera (ca. 1885-1942) and Card Files (1900-1942).

The collection is organized into thefollowing two series:

Series I. Portrait Photographs
Oversized Portraits from Series I.
Series II. Documentary Material
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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

Open to qualified researchers.

Photocopying undertaken by staff only. Limited to 30 photocopiesper day per person. Suitability of the original for photocopying is at the discretion of the staff. Neither blueprints nor tracings can be copied under any circumstances. Duplication oflarge-format items will be done by the house photographer. See Print Room guidelines fordetails.

Use Restrictions

Permissionto reproduce any Print Room holdings through publication must be obtained from

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The copyright law of the United States governs themaking of photocopies and protects unpublished materials as well as published materials.Unpublished materials created before January 1, 1978 cannot be quoted in publication withoutpermission of the copyright holder.

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Access Points

Subject Names:

Adler, Felix, 1851-1933.
Amundsen, Roald, 1872-1928--Portraits.
Anderson, Sherwood,1876-1941--Portraits.
Arents, George, 1875-1960--Portraits.
Benet, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943--Portraits.
Bloom, Sol, 1870-1949--Portraits.
Burroughs, John,1837-1921--Portraits.
Coward, Noel, 1899-1973--Portraits.
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930--Portraits.
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945--Portraits.
Ford, Henry, 1863-1947--Portraits.
Gibson,Charles Dana, 1867-1944--Portraits.
Goudy, Frederic W. (FredericWilliam), 1865-1947--Portraits.
Hassam, Childe, 1859-1935--Portraits.
Lumiere, Antoine, 1842-1911--Portraits.
Masters, Edgar Lee,1868-1950--Portraits.
Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902--Portraits.
Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926--Portraits.
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919--Portraits.
Wise, Stephen Samuel,1874-1949--Portraits.

Subject Topics:

Portrait photography–United States

Document Types:

Photographic prints
Portraits
Self-portraits
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Administrative Information

Provenance

Gift of Mrs. Pirie MacDonaldand Mr. & Mrs. Everett Tutchlings, January 29, 1947 (photographs), and Mrs. Everett (PatriciaMacDonald) Tutchlings, March 1, 1951 (patron studio cards).

Preferred Citation

This collection should be cited as Pirie MacDonald Portrait PhotographCollection, PR-039, Department of Prints, Photographs, and Architectural Collections.

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Container List

Series I. Portrait Photographs

The series isarranged in two sets: folders numbered 1 through 410 hold mounted portraits in a 9 by 6 inchformat; folders 420 through 494 hold mounted portraits in a 13 by 10 inch format. Within eachset, the photographs are arranged in alphabetical order by sitter.

Box Folder Title Date
1 1 Adams, Herbert(1858-1945), sculptor 1917
1 2 Adams, James Truslow(1878-1949), historian 1938
1 3 Adams, Wayman(1883-1959), portrait painter 1931
1 4 Alexander, JohnWhite (1856-1915), painter 1915
1 5 Anderson,Sherwood (1876-1941), author 1937
1 6 Andrews, CharlesMcLean (1836-1943), historian, educator 1937
1 7 Arents, George (1875-1960), corporation official, bibliophile 1932
1 8 Astor, Vincent (1891-1959), real estate owner, military officer 1922
1 9 Bacheller, Addison Irving (1859-1950),author, publisher 1926
1 10 Bacon, Henry(1866-1924), architect 1922
1 11 Baden-Powell, RobertStephenson Smyth (1857-1941), military officer 1919
1 12 Bainbridge, William Seaman (1870-1947), surgeon; military officer 1934
1 13 Bairnsfather, Captain Bruce (1888-1959), illustrator 1918
1 14 Baker, George Pierce (1866-1935),educator 1926
1 15 Baker, Ray Stannard ["David Grayson"](1870-1940), author 1937
1 16 Ballin, Hugo (1879-1956),painter 1931
1 17 Barber, Samuel (1910-1981), composer 1940
1 18 Barry, Philip (1896-1949), playwright 1922
1 19 Bartlett, Paul Wayland (1865-1925),sculptor 1915
1 20 Barton, Bruce (1886-1967), advertisingexecutive, author, politician 1924
1 21 Baruch, BernardMannes (1870-1965), economist, financier, statesman 1926
1 22 Battle, George Gordon (1868-1949), lawyer 1909
1 23 Beach, Chester (1881-1956), sculptor 1931
1 24 Beard, Daniel Carter (1850-1941), artist, author, editor 1920
1 25 Beckwith, Edmund Ruffin (1890-1949), lawyer 1939
2 26 Bedaux, Charles E. (1886-1944),industrial engineer 1932
2 27 Bedford, Edward Thomas(1849-1931), businessman 1909
2 28 Bedford, FrederickThomas (1877-1963), businessman 1932
2 29 Beers,Clifford Whittingham (1876-1943), founder of the Mental Hygiene movement 1932
2 30 Beith, John Hay ["Ian Hay"] (1876-1952), novelist,playwright, military officer 1916
2 31 Benedict, EliasCornelius (1834-1920), banker 1903
2 32 Benet, StephenVincent (1898-1943), poet, author 1935
2 33 Benet,William Rose (1886-1950), author 1934
2 34 Benjamin,Park (1849-1922), author, patent lawyer, editor 1902
2 35 Bennett, Arnold (1867-1931), novelist 1911
2 36 Beveridge,Albert Jeremiah (1862-1927), politician 1914
2 37 Black,Frank Swett (1853-1913), politician 1904
2 38 Blashfield,Edwin Howland (1848-1936), painter 1915
2 39 Bloom, Sol(1870-1945), politician 1928
2 40 Blythe, Samuel George(1868-1947), author 1913
2 41 Bok, William Edward(1863-1930), editor 1909
2 42 Bolton, Guy Reginald(1881-1979), playwright 1924
2 43 Borglum, Solon Hannibal(1868-1922), sculptor 1906
2 44 Boyd, Ernest Augustus(1887-1946), author, critic 1925
2 45 Boyd, James(1888-1944), author 1925
2 46 Brady, Anthony Nicholas(1843-1913), capitalist 1906
2 47 Brady, Nicholas Frederic(1878-1930), capitalist 1907
2 48 Brenner, Victor David(1871-1924), medallist, sculptor 1913
2 49 Bridges, Robert["Droch"] (1858-1941), editor, author 1931
2 50 Brisbane,Arthur (1864-1936), editor 1906
3 51 Brockway, Howard(1870-1951), composer 1931
3 52 Brooks, Van Wyck(1886-1963), author, critic 1926
3 53 Broun, Heywood(1888-1939), journalist, playwright 1908
3 54 Brown,Elmer Ellsworth (1861-1934), educator 1926
3 55 Browne,Lewis (1897-1949), author 1928
3 56 Brownell, WilliamCrary (1851-1928), editor, author 1915
3 57 Brush,George DeForest (1855-1941), artist 1917
3 58 Bunau-Varilla, Philippe (1859-1940), French statesman 1903
3 59 Burgess, Frank Gelett (1886-1951), author 1924
3 60 Burroughs, John (1837-1921), naturalist, author 1906
3 61 Burton, Richard Eugene (1861-1940), poet, educator 1931
3 62 Bush, Irving T. (1869-1948),businessman 1918
3 63 Butler, Nicholas Murray(1862-1947), university president 1915
3 64 Cable,George Washington (1844-1925), author 1915
3 65 Cadman, Samuel Parkes (1864-1936), clergyman 1909
3 66 Calder, A. Stirling (1870-1945), sculptor 1931
3 67 Canby, Henry Seidel (b. 1878), editor 1933
3 68 Cardozo, Benjamin Nathan (1870-1938), jurist - [three-quarter pose] 1914
3 69 Cardozo, Benjamin Nathan (1870-1938), jurist -[three-quarter pose, without glasses] 1927
3 70 Carman,Bliss (1861-1929), poet 1903
3 71 Carnegie, Dale(1888-1955), author, lecturer 1928
3 72 Carpenter, JohnAlden (1876-1951), composer 1932
3 73 Carrel, Alexis(1873-1944), surgeon, biologist 1939
3 74 Carty, John J.(1861-1932), electrical engineer 1925
3 75 Chaffee, AdnaRomanza (1842-1914), military officer 1905
4 76 Chanler,Lewis Stuyvesant (1869-1942), lawyer 1908
4 77 Channing,Edward (1856-1931), educator, historian 1926
4 78 Chapin, Roy Dikeman (1880-1936), industrialist 1921
4 79 Chapman, John J. (1862-1933), author 1908
4 80 Chapple, Joseph Mitchell (1867-1950), editor, author 1923
4 81 Chase, Stuart (1888-1985), author, economist 1932
4 82 Chatfield-Taylor, Hobart C. (1865-1945), author 1934
4 83 Christian X (1870-1947), Danish King 1921
4 84 Chrysler, Walter, Jr. (1909-1988), capitalist,philanthropist 1938
4 85 Clarke, Gilmore David(1892-1938), engineer, landscape architect, educator 1937
4 86 Clews, Henry (1840-1923), banker 1902
4 87 Cobb, Irvin Shrewsbury (1876-1944), author 1912
4 88 Cockran, William Bourke (1854-1923), politician 1913
4 89 Cole, Timothy (1852-1931), wood engraver 1915
4 90 Collier, Robert Joseph (1876-1918), editor, publisher 1916
4 91 Comstock, Cyrus. A., merchant 1936
4 92 Connelly, Marc (1890-1980), playwright 1923
4 93 Copeland, Charles Townsend (1860-1952), educator 1915
4 94 Cosgrave, William Thomas (1880-1965),Irish statesman 1928
4 95 Coudert, Frederic R., Sr.(1871-1955), lawyer 1913
4 96 Cox, Kenyon (1856-1919),painter 1906
4 97 Coykendall, Frederick (1872-1954),shipping executive. publisher 1935
4 98 Cram, RalphAdams (1863-1942), architect, author, critic 1936
4 99 Crawford, Francis Marion (1854-1909), novelist, historian 1903
4 100 Cromwell, William Nelson (1854-1948), lawyer 1939
5 101 Crooks, Richard Alexander (1910-1972), tenor 1933
5 102 Cross, Wilbur Lucius (1862-1948), educator, author, editor, politician 1923
5 103 Dabo, Leon (1868-1960), artist 1921
5 104 Damrosch, Frank Heino (1859-1937), musician, musical director 1913
5 105 Damrosch, Walter Johannes(1862-1950), conductor, composer [profile pose, black jacket] 1919
5 106 Damrosch, Walter Johannes (1862-1950), conductor, composer[profile pose, gray jacket] 1936
5 107 Davenport, Homer Calvin (1867-1912), illustrator 1903
5 108 Davis, Norman H. (1878-1944), financier 1923
5 109 Davis, Richard Harding (1864-1916), novelist 1915
5 110 Davis, Vernon Mansfield (1855-1931),jurist 1908
5 111 Davison, Henry Pomeroy (1867-1922),banker 1909
5 112 Dawson, Coningsby William(1883-1959), author 1920
5 113 Day, Joseph P. (b. 1873),real estate auctioneer 1922
5 114 Delano, William Adams(1874-1960), architect 1936
5 115 Derby, Richard(1881-1963), surgeon 1917
5 116 Dewey, Charles Melville(1849-1937), painter 1913
5 117 Dielman, Frederick(1847-1935), painter 1931
5 118 Doherty, Henry Latham(1870-1939), public utilities executive 1908
5 119 Doran,George Henry (1869-1956), author, editor, publisher 1924
5 120 Dos Passos, John Randolph (1844-1917), lawyer 1907
5 121 Doyle, Arthur Conan (1859-1930), English author 1922
5 122 Dreiser, Theodore (1871-1945), novelist 1907
5 123 Drinkwater, John (1882-1937), poet, dramatist 1925
5 124 Dumond, Frank Vincent (1865-1951),artist, instructor 1936
5 125 Durant, William James(1885-1981), author, educator 1927
6 126 Duveen, Joseph(1869-1939), art dealer, art patron 1915
6 127 Eaton,Charles Warren (1857-1937), painter 1908
6 128 Eaton,Walter Prichard (1878-1957), author, educator, critic 1931
6 129 Edman, Irwin (1896-1954), educator, author 1940
6 130 Edwards, George Wharton (1869-1950), painter, illustrator 1931
6 131 Egan, Maurice Francis (1852-1924), diplomat, editor,author 1921
6 132 Erdmann, John Frederic (1864-1954),surgeon 1938
6 133 Erskine, John (1879-1951), novelist,essayist, musician 1936
6 134 Ervine, St. John Greer(1883-1971), Irish dramatist, novelist 1928
6 135 Fargo,James Congdel (1829-1915), financier 1901
6 136 Farrar,John C. (1896-1974), editor, author 1921
6 137 Farrow,Miles (1871-1953), organist, composer 1926
6 138 Field,Marshall (1835-1906), merchant, philanthropist 1903
6 139 Field, Marshall III (1893-1956), corporation director, publisher 1935
6 140 Finley, John Huston (1863-1940) editor [three-quarter pose, tiltedhead] 1903
6 141 Finley, John Huston (1863-1940) editor[three-quarter pose] 1913
6 142 Firestone, HarveySamuel, Sr. (1868-1938), industrialist 1915
6 143 Firestone,Harvey Samuel, Jr. (b. 1898), industrialist 1930
6 144 Fish, Hamilton, Sr. (1849-1936), politician 1908
6 145 Fisher, Harrison (1877-1934), artist [three-quarter pose] 1922
6 146 Flanagan, John F. (1865-1952), sculptor 1922
6 147 Ford, Edsel Bryant (1893-1943), industrialist 1934
6 148 Ford, Henry (1863-1947), industrialist 1934
6 149 Ford, Simeon (1855-1933), businessman, orator 1902
6 150 Fox, Dixon Ryan (1887-1945), historian, universitypresident 1937
7 151 French, Daniel Chester (1850-1931),sculptor 1913
7 152 French, Frederick Fillmore (1884-1936),businessman 1924
7 153 French, John DentonPinkstone (1852-1925), English military officer 1922
7 154 Friml, Rudolf (1884-1972), composer, pianist 1927
7 155 Funk, Wilfred John (1883-1965), publisher 1932
7 156 Garland, Hamlin (1860-1940), novelist, dramatist 1919
7 157 Gary, Elbert Henry (1846-1927), jurist, industrialist 1925
7 158 Gates, John Warne (1855-1911), financier 1908
7 159 Geddes, Norman Bel (1893-1958), designer, author, producer 1930
7 160 Gibson, Charles Dana (1867-1944),painter, illustrator 1903
7 161 Gifford, Walter Sherman(1885-1966), businessman 1925
7 162 Gill, Enrique (b.1890), Argentine lawyer 1941
7 163 Gilbert, Cass(1859-1934), architect 1918
7 164 Giles, Howard Everett(1876-1955), painter 1914
7 165 Gillette, William H.(1855-1937), actor, playwright 1917
7 166 Gilman,Lawrence (1878-1939), critic, author, editor 1931
7 167 Glackens, William J. (1870-1938), painter 1936
7 168 Gogarty, Oliver St. John (1878-1957), author 1933
7 169 Goldman, Albert (1882-1967), government official 1939
7 170 Gordon, Charles William (1860-1937), Canadian clergyman, author 1929
7 171 Goudy, Frederic William (1865-1947), type designer 1934
7 172 Grady, George (1888-1956), printer 1939
7 173 Grainger, Percy A. (1882-1961),composer, pianist 1916
7 174 Gregory, John(1879-1958), sculptor 1931
7 175 Gray, Zane (1875-1939),novelist 1920
8 176 Groll, Albert Lorey (1866-1952),painter, printmaker 1937
8 177 Hadley, Arthur Twining(1856-1930), university president 1918
8 178 Hadley,Henry K. (1871-1937), composer 1925
8 179 Haenschen, Walter Gustave (1889-1980), composer, conductor 1931
8 180 Hamilton, Clayton Meeker (1881-1946), editor, critic, playwright 1931
8 181 Hammond, John Hayes (1855-1936),mining engineer 1902
8 182 Hannay, James Owen["George A. Birmingham"] (1865-1910), Irish clergyman, novelist, playwright 1913
8 183 Harbach, Otto Abels (1873-1963), playwright 1925
8 184 Harper, George McLean (1863-1947),educator 1936
8 185 Harriman, Oliver (1862-1940), financier 1912
8 186 Haskell, William Nafew (1878-1952),military officer 1937
8 187 Hassam, Childe(1859-1935), painter, printmaker 1923
8 188 Hayes,Carleton J. H. (1882-1964), educator, diplomat 1931
8 189 Hedges, Job Elmer (1862-1925), lawyer 1912
8 190 Held,John, Jr. (1889-1958), illustrator 1924
8 191 Herbert,Victor (1859-1924), composer, conductor 1906
8 192 Hewitt, Peter Cooper (1861-1921), scientist, inventor 1911
8 193 Higgins, Frank Wayland (1856-1907), politician 1903
8 194 Hill, Edward Burlingame (1872-1957), musician, composer 1931
8 195 Hill, George Washington (1884-1946),businessman 1922
8 196 Hogan, Frank J.(1877-1944), lawyer, bibliophile 1938
8 197 Howard,Sidney (Coe) (1891-1939), playwright 1925
8 198 Howells,John Mead (1868-1959), architect 1931
8 199 Hoyt,Colgate (1849-1922), banker 1901
8 200 Hughes, CharlesEvans (1862-1948), lawyer, jurist, politician 1904
9 201 Hughes, Hatcher (1881-1945), dramatist, educator 1936
9 202 Huneker, James Gibbons (1860-1921), music critic, author 1906
9 203 Inge, William Ralph (1860-1954), English clergyman, author, lecturer 1925
9 204 Jackson, Dugald Caleb (1865-1951),electrical engineer, author 1939
9 205 James, Philip(1890-1975), composer, conductor 1936
9 206 Jennewein, Carl Paul (1890-1978), sculptor 1933
9 207 Jerome, William Travers (1859-1934), lawyer 1905
9 208 Johansen, John Christian (1876-1964), painter 1934
9 209 Johnson, Edward (1881-1959), Canadian tenor, opera manager 1938
9 210 Johnson, Robert Underwood (1853-1937), editor, author 1908
9 211 Jones, Robert Edmond (1887-1954), set and graphicdesigner 1922
9 212 Kaempffert, Waldemar Bernhard(1877-1956), author 1917
9 213 Kelley, Cornelius Francis(1875-1957), industrialist 1908
9 214 Kendall, WilliamMitchell (1856-1941), architect 1931
9 215 Kendall, WilliamSergeant (1869-1938), painter, sculptor 1931
9 216 Ketten,Maurice (b. 1875), illustrator 1908
9 217 Kingsley, DarwinPearl (1857-1932), businessman 1914
9 218 Kinney, Troy(1871-1938), artist, author 1931
9 219 Kirby, ThomasEllis (1846-1924), art auctioneer 1923
9 220 Kroll,Leon (1884-1974), painter 1931
9 221 Krutch, JosephWood (1893-1970), author, educator 1937
9 222 La Farge,Bancel (1865-1938), painter 1936
9 223 Lang, WilliamCosmo Gordon (1864-1945), English clergyman [half-length, seated, white robe] 1918
9 224 Lawrence, William (1850-1941), clergyman[three-quarter pose] 1916
9 225 Lawson, Ernest(1873-1939), painter 1931
10 226 Le Boutillier, Philip (b.1880), merchant 1931
10 227 Lee, Ivy Ledbetter(1877-1934), publicist 1913
10 228 LeGallienne, Richard(1866-1947), author, poet, novelist 1902
10 229 Lehman,Irving (1876-1945), jurist 1909
10 230 Lippmann,Walter (1889-1974), editor, author 1936
10 231 Littleton,Martin Wiley (1872-1934), lawyer 1916
10 232 Lodge,Henry Cabot (1850-1924), politician 1915
10 233 Lodge,Oliver (1851-1940), English scientist [profile pose] 1920
10 234 Lorillard, Pierre (1860-1940), businessman 1912
10 235 Low, Will Hicok (1853-1932), artist 1913
10 236 Lumiere, Antoine (1846-1911), French painter, photographer 1907
10 237 Mabie, Hamilton Wright (1846-1916), editor, author 1915
10 238 McAdoo, William Gibbs (1863-1941),politician 1903
10 239 McClellan, George Brinton(1865-1940), politician 1905
10 240 McCormack, John(1884-1945), tenor 1937
10 241 McCormick, Cyrus Hall(1859-1936), businessman 1935
10 242 MacCracken,Henry Noble (1880-1970), college president 1924
10 243 McCutcheon, George Barr (1866-1928), author 1919
10 244 MacDonald, Carlos Frederick (1845-1926), psychiatrist 1926
10 245 MacDonald, John (1844-1911), businessman 1903
10 246 MacDonald, Pirie (1867-1942), photographer [in Scottish regalia] 1901
10 247 MacDonald, Pirie (1867-1942),photographer [in Boy Scout uniform] 1921
10 248 MacDonald, Pirie (1867-1942), photographer [three-quarter pose, with glasses] 1930
10 249 MacDonald, Pirie (1867-1942), photographer [instudio with camera and wall of portraits] 1933
10 250 MacDonald, Pirie (1867-1942), photographer [in studio, seated and holding clipboard] 1936
11 251 MacDonald, Pirie (1867-1942),photographer [three-quarter pose, without glasses] 1940
11 252 McFee, William (1881-1960), author 1933
11 253 MacKaye, Percy (1875-1956), dramatist, author 1936
11 254 Mallory, Charles Henry (1892-1953), broker 1915
11 255 Malone, Dudley Field (1882-1950), lawyer 1910
11 256 Manning, William Thomas (1866-1949), clergyman 1921
11 257 Manship, Paul (1885-1966), sculptor 1931
11 258 Markham, Edwin (1852-1940), poet, lecturer 1903
11 259 Marquis, Donald Robert Perry(1878-1937), author, playwright 1928
11 260 Martin, Bradley(1841-1913), lawyer, financier 1909
11 261 Masaryk, Jan(1866-1948), Czech politician 1919
11 262 Masaryk,Thomas Garrigue (1850-1937), Czech politician 1920
11 263 Mason, Daniel Gregory (1873-1953), composer 1938
11 264 Massaguer, Conrado (1889-1965), Cuban illustrator 1932
11 265 Masters, Edgar Lee (1869-1950), author, poet 1919
11 266 Mather, Frank Jewett, Jr. (1868-1953),educator, author 1936
11 267 Matthews, Brander(1852-1929), educator 1906
11 268 Maugham, W. Somerset(1874-1965), English author 1935
11 269 Mead, D. Irving(1875-1951), banker 1934
11 270 Mead, WilliamRutherford (1846-1928), architect 1918
11 271 Menken,Arthur, newsreel correspondent 1941
11 272 Milford,Humphrey Sumner (1877-1952), English publisher 1929
11 273 Miller, Nathan L. (1868-1953), politician, jurist 1940
11 274 Miller, Warner (1838-1918), politician 1906
11 275 Mills, Darius Ogden (1825-1910), banker, financier, philanthropist 1902
12 276 Morley, Christopher D. (1890-1990),author 1921
12 277 Mumford, Lewis (1895-1990), author 1936
12 278 Murphy, John Francis (1853-1921),painter 1902
12 279 Nast, Thomas (1840-1902), artist,illustrator 1902
12 280 Nathan, George Jean (1882-1958),author, editor, critic 1933
12 281 Nathan, Robert G.(1894-1985), author 1936
12 282 Newcombe, George (b.1906), industrialist 1942
12 283 Nicholson, Meredith(1866-1947), author, diplomat, lecturer 1922
12 284 Nicoll,DeLancey (1854-1931), lawyer 1908
12 285 Nixon, Lewis(1861-1940), shipbuilder 1903
12 286 O'Brien, MorganJoseph (1852-1937), jurist 1907
12 287 O'Casey, Sean(1881-1964), Irish playwright 1934
12 288 Ochs, Adolph S.(1858-1935), publisher 1911
12 289 Ochtman, Leonard(1854-1934), painter 1913
12 290 Oenslager, DonaldMitchell (1902-1975), scenic designer 1937
12 291 Olcott,Jacob Van Vechten (1856-1940), politician 1905
12 292 Opper, Frederick Burr (1857-1937), illustrator 1903
12 293 Overton, Grant (1887-1930), author 1928
12 294 Page,Curtis Hidden (1870-1946), writer, editor, educator 1914
12 295 Paine, Albert Bigelow (1861-1937), author, editor 1932
12 296 Parker, Alton Brooks (1853-1926), jurist 1906
12 297 Parker, Gilbert (1862-1932), English novelist 1913
12 298 Parker, Herschel Clifford (b. 1867), physicist 1911
12 299 Parkhurst, Charles Henry (1842-1933), clergyman 1906
12 300 Pinchot, Gifford (1865-1946), politician,conservationist 1909
13 301 Pine, John (1857-1922),lawyer 1908
13 302 Pirie, John Taylor (1871-1940),merchant 1905
13 303 Platt, Charles Adams (1861-1933),architect, painter 1921
13 304 Platt, Thomas Collier(1833-1910), politician 1903
13 305 Poore, Henry Rankin(1859-1940), painter, author 1914
13 306 Pope, JohnRussell (1874-1937), architect 1911
13 307 Posner, Michael(b. 1890), violinist 1919
13 308 Powell, John(1882-1963), composer, pianist [three-quarter pose, facing left] 1931
13 309 Putnam, Herbert (1861-1955), librarian 1936
13 310 Raskob, John J. (1879-1950), businessman 1922
13 311 Rentschler, Gordon S. (1885-1948), banker, industrialist 1940
13 312 Rhind, John Massey (1858-1936), sculptor 1911
13 313 Riis, Jacob August (1849-1914), author 1906
13 314 Roberts, Kenneth (1885-1957), author 1936
13 315 Robinson, Douglas (1855-1918),businessman 1908
13 316 Robinson, EdwinArlington (1869-1935), poet 1929
13 317 Robinson,Lennox (1886-1958), Irish playwright, author 1933
13 318 Roche, James Jeffrey (1847-1908), editor 1903
13 319 Rogers, Bruce (1870-1957), book designer 1932
13 320 Roosevelt, Nicholas (1893-1965), author, diplomat [in military uniform] 1917
13 321 Roosevelt, Nicholas (1893-1965), author, diplomat [in business suit] 1938
13 322 Ross, Hugh (b. 1898), conductor 1936
13 323 Roth, Ernest David (1879-1964),painter, printmaker 1934
13 324 Sabin, CharlesHamilton (1868-1933), banker 1909
13 325 Sachse, JuliusFrederich (1842-1919), historian 1908
14 326 Sage,Russell (1816-1906), financier 1903
14 327 Sarnoff, David(1891-1971), businessman 1923
14 328 Sassoon,Siegfried (1886-1967), English poet 1920
14 329 Schelling, Ernest Henry (1876-1939), pianist, composer, conductor [profile pose] 1931
14 330 Schiff, Mortimer L. (1877-1931), banker 1911
14 331 Schurz, Carl Lincoln (1871-1924), lawyer, publicist 1908
14 332 Schwab, Charles M. (1862-1939),industrialist 1917
14 333 Shackleton, Ernest(1874-1922), English explorer 1913
14 334 Shattuck, FrankG. (1860-1937), businessman 1917
14 335 Shaw, Albert(1857-1947), author, editor 1902
14 336 Sheldon,Edward Brewster (1886-1946), playwright 1914
14 337 Shelley, Harry Rowe (1858-1947), organist, composer 1936
14 338 Sherwood, Robert Emmet (1896-1955), playwright 1940
14 339 Shipman, Herbert (1869-1930) clergyman 1916
14 340 Sitwell, Francis Osbert (1892-1969), English poet, playwright, novelist 1926
14 341 Skinner, Otis (1858-1942), actor 1917
14 342 Sloan, Alfred Pritchard, Jr.(1873-1966), industrialist 1922
14 343 Sloan, WilliamMilligan (1850-1928), educator 1915
14 344 Smith, DavidStanley (1877-1949), composer 1933
14 345 Smith, JonasWaldo (1861-1933), civil engineer 1924
14 346 Spaeth,Sigmund (1885-1965), writer, musician, lecturer 1935
14 347 Speicher, Eugene Edward (1883-1962), artist 1936
14 348 Spencer, Lorillard (1883-1939), industrialist 1921
14 349 Sproule, William (1858-1935), railway executive 1916
14 350 Stanchfield, John Barry (1855-1921), lawyer 1913
15 351 Stedman, Edmund Clarence(1833-1908), poet, critic 1903
15 352 Stefansson, Vilahjalmur(1879-1962), explorer, writer 1924
15 353 Steffens,(Joseph) Lincoln (1866-1936), writer, lecturer 1912
15 354 Stephens, James (1882-1950) Irish poet, author 1925
15 355 Stern, Louis (1847-1922), merchant 1904
15 356 Stettinius, Edward R. Sr., (1865-1925), banker 1917
15 357 Stettinius, Edward R., Jr. (1900-1949), government official 1933
15 358 Stock, Frederick A. (1872-1942), conductor 1936
15 359 Stoessel, Albert F. (1894-1943), composer, conductor 1932
15 360 Stout, Rex Todhunter (1886-1975), author 1926
15 361 Straus, Jesse Isidor (1872-1936),merchant, diplomat 1931
15 362 Straus, Oscar Solomon(1850-1926), merchant, diplomat 1902
15 363 Straus,Percy Seldon (1876-1944), merchant 1940
15 364 Street,Julian (1879-1947), author 1911
15 365 Strong, Austin(1881-1952), author, dramatist 1936
15 366 Strong,Benjamin (1872-1928), banker 1914
15 367 Stryker,Melancthon Woolsey (1851-1929), college president 1912
15 368 Sullivan, Mark (1874-1952), author, journalist 1916
15 369 Sulzberger, Cyrus L. (1858-1932), merchant 1906
15 370 Swinnerton, Frank Arthur (1884-1982), English author, critic 1924
15 371 Taft, Lorado (1860-1936), sculptor 1923
15 372 Tarkington, Booth (1869-1946),novelist, playwright 1919
15 373 Taylor, Myron Charles(1874-1959), lawyer, banker, diplomat 1936
15 374 Terhune,Albert Payson (1872-1942), author, dog fancier 1922
15 375 Thayer, Harry Bates (1858-1936), businessman 1915
16 376 Thomas, Augustus (1857-1934), playwright 1918
16 377 Thomas, Lowell (1892-1981), author, lecturer, commentator 1933
16 378 Thomas, Norman M. (1884-1968), author, editor, politician 1932
16 379 Tinker, Chauncey Brewster(1876-1963), educator, author 1940
16 380 Torrence,(Frederick) Ridgely (1875-1950), author, poet, dramatist 1933
16 381 Torrey, George Burroughs (1863-1942), painter 1915
16 382 Trask, Spencer (1844-1909), banker 1900
16 383 Tryon, Dwight William (1849-1925), painter 1906
16 384 Tutchings, Everett, organist,choirmaster 1938
16 385 Underwood, FrederickDouglass (1849-1942), businessman 1905