January 28, 1921. War orphans, Irish protesters, Lost airships, and Absurd hats.

Admiral McCully's youthful Russian charges visited Secretary of the Navy Daniels on this day in 1921.  We've written about them at length here:

What were their lives like? Admiral McCully's adopted Russian orphans, Eugenia Z. Selifanova and Olga Krundvcher.

Pickets protesting for Irish independence marched in Washington, D.C.  Such demonstrations were now a common thing in the United States, which Irish Republicans were courting.

Irish Pickets, 1/28/21, in Washington D. C.

The British sustained the loss of the airship R34, which flew into the side of a hill and was destroyed.

A couple of elderly Congressman were photographed wearing fairly absurd hats.

 

Congressman Isaac R. Sherwood of Ohio allowed himself to be photographed in this fairly absurd hat.

Champ Clark.

For more on hats:

Caps, Hats, Fashion and Perceptions of Decency and being Dressed.