Let's play a game...

I got this photo from a friend (who shall remain nameless unless she owns up) from Ebay awhile ago. She was trying to find out who this man might be. It's such an intriguing photo. He's bedridden. There's an antique phone next to him. Some large books topped by what looks like a photo album. Pinned above him are the September 30, 1929 issue of Time with Ina Claire Gilbert on the cover and another Time magazine that I haven't been able to ID. He's holding the October 1929 issue of Pictorial Review and he's holding a pen as if he's about to autograph it.

So, is it Uncle Louis in the institution, or is it someone famous? We decided it isn't Picasso. Have at it. Captions allowed.

 

I already told you - it's Uncle Fred!

 

Time August 12 1929 Paul Shoup So. Pacific RR pres. Those "large books" are actually letter boxes marked "Letters" made to look like books so they will look good on a bookshelf. He's a smoker so he may be dying from lung cancer. Do I win?

 

Spring, I think that came up when I first posted this to the old Antiques Board, but it isn't Paul Shoup.

 

Oh, fun!

I just did some looking and found nothing helpful... need to leave soon but will look later.

Springfld.arsenal, you figured out the cover! Now, who is the man in the photo?

He does look like Picasso, later in life. But I won't go there since you've already eliminated him.

 

Finding the contents of that issue of Pictorial Review might help. I did find a few things, but none panned out. (For example, this is NOT Henry Ford!)

 

I remember this thread.
Wasn't this found in the Denver area?
Didn't we discus TB institutions?
Love the little lamp hanging above his head

 

Yes, yes, and me too.

 

Okay, Paul Shoup on the magazine, but the guy in bed is....who? It would make a good Get Well card.

 

Sorry that I don't remember the previous discussion! Is it still online, or has it been axed?

 

I have no idea, Fig. It was many years ago - 4? 5? 7?
I do remember that we had a lot of fun with it though.

 

Hm. Why those 2 editions of Time specifically? Did you ever investigate who did the cover art?

 

WAG: Horace Winston Stokes, an author who had an article in that Ed of Review.

But a few minutes of search didn't find a named photo of him, is y I call it a WAG.

M guessing if u pulled down the TOC for each of the 3 mags shown and found one author common to all, he'd b da man. Sry I'm out of time or would do that.

The cover artists for the Time mags shown R 2 diff ppl.

 

He was born in 1886, so would have been only about 43 in 1929, and so is not the person in the photo.

A Horace Winston Stokes is listed in a section of the Yale catalogue of graduates as "Bachelor of Arts, 1909."
https://books.google.com/books?id=R...zgK#v=onepage&q=horace winston stokes&f=false

And the writer/editor Stokes was from New York City, it appears.

I do see a different Yale catalogue that lists an address for him in New York City:
https://books.google.com/books?id=d...TgK#v=onepage&q=horace winston stokes&f=false

Here is a listing for him from the Marquis Who's Who:
HORACE WINSTON STOKES
Occupation: publisher
Born: New York, New York, Mar. 2, 1886
Died Jan. 18, 1950.
Son of Frederick Abbot and Ellen Rebecca (Colby) S.; prep. edn. Phillips Acad., Andover, Mass., 1904-05; A.B., Yale, 1909; married Mary Sanford Wheeler, May 22, 1920; children—Ellen, Mary Wheeler. Began as newspaper reporter on N.Y. Sun, also on N.Y. Herald-Tribune, 1910; editorial work with American Magazine, 1914-17; advertising with Frank Seaman, Inc., Crowell Pub. Co., 1920-26; with Frederick A. Stokes Co., Inc., 1926-41, pres., 1939-41. Served as private Squadron A, 1st Cav., N.G.N.Y., on Mexican border, 1916-17; 1st lt. 165th Inf., 306th Inf., U.S. Army, with A.E.F., 1917-19. Mem. Alpha Delta Phi, Wolfs Head (Yale). Club: The Players (N.Y. City). Author: Frog Face (a novel), 1946. Contbr. to mags. in the U.S. and Eng. Address: care W. C. Heaton Co., 25 W. 45th St., New York; N.Y

 

But it's a good thought! I did look for some other authors from that issue earlier.

If we could find contents for that issue of Pictorial Review, and also for those two issues of Time, maybe there would be some common name that might help to narrow it down?

Of course, this assumes that those three issues are somehow connected to him.

Fig

 

"He was born in 1886, so..."

Are u sure the pic was taken in 1929?

 

Given the phone, and the other items around him, it was probably close to that time.

 

Since three magazines around him were from 1929, I was assuming that was the time. Also, based on the look of the photo I would say that it wouldn't be much later. I don't think I've seen many sepia toned photos from later than, say, the 1930s. I'll have to look into that, though.

 

Another guess would be that he might be the illustrator of that cover? I haven't been able to figure out who the illustrator was yet, although I have found some other issues of that magazine where the illustrator was identified.

 

The marcelled hair on the lady dates that mag to about the same time.