A MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH!

Just last night, we were sent an email from Natalia Gutiérrez Urquijo, a doctoral student in history at El Colegio de México in Mexico City. Natalia found the original photo published in El Tiempo, the main Colombian newspaper, on January 29, 1930. Here's the link where you can see it for yourself.

The headline reads (in English): “A view of those attending a dinner given for Dr. Enrique Olaya Herrera in the Medellin Country Club.” And the caption beneath the photo says, “In the Center, Dr. Olaya Herrera between Dr. Carlos E. Restrepo and don Ricardo Greiffenstein; also shown are the gentlemen who accompanied Dr. Olaya Herrera on his tour and some of the most distinguished personalities of Medellín."

This conclusively fills in many important pieces of the puzzle. We now know where and when the photo was taken, as well as the occasion for this illustrious gathering.

We also now know the identity of the man standing next to Olaya, 20th from the left. He is Ricardo Greiffenstein, President of the Public Improvement Society of Medellín.

Currently, we have positively identified 19 of the 32 men in this photo, and thanks to this archival breakthrough, we are much closer to identifying the rest.

A MILLION THANKS to Natalia Gutiérrez Urquijo of El Colegio de México for this invaluable contribution and her impressive archival detective work!