File:Philomathean society, 1899.jpg

English: Photo of American Literary Society, The Philomathean Society, taken in 1899 in Reno by the local Riverside Gallery. One of the oldest literary societies in the United States of America. Exists within the present with the motto "Sic itur ad astra" ("Thus we procede to the stars"). Members photographed here are as follows: (top row from left to right) Thomas J Lawrence, Paul Keyser, Seymour Case, Alfred M Smith, Margaret Henry, William F Drew, Scott E Jameson; (second row from left to right) Delle Boyd Fenton A Boham, Evan Session, Halbert H Howe, Aimee A Sherman, Eugene Staunton, Maud E Nash, Lulu O Culp; (third row from left to right) Mattie McIntire, John S Mayhugh, Frances Kerby, Walter C Lamb, Elizabeth S Stubbs, Patrick A McCarran, Ethel Sparks, George T Saxton; (bottom row from left to right) Maurice P Hayes, Amilia M North, Enid M Williams, Laura Smith, Agatha Henry, Irvin W Ayers.