Early automobiles - Balfour -- Choate -- Gibson

Photograph shows British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Arthur James Balfour (148-1930), seated at left next to Joseph Hodges Choate (1832-1917), chairman of the mayor's committee for entertaining British and French commissions during their visit to New York, May 11, 1917 and Hugh S. Gibson (1883-1954) of the State Department and personal aide to Mr. Balfour. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)