Capt. Adams addresses recruits - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows Captain Charles Albert Adams (1846-1929), a U.S. naval officer who served as the commander of the U.S.S. Recruit, a wooden mockup of a battleship built in Union Square, New York City by the Navy to recruit seamen and sell Liberty Bonds during World War I. Adams is bidding farewell to new recruits along with Canadian Highlander soldiers ("Kilties") who were in New York in July 1917 to assist in recruitment. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015 and The Sunday Oregonian, August 12, 1917)
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Photograph published in The Sunday Oregonian, August 12, 1917.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain