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Clearly a summer event that appealed to the young. I wondered if it could be the 1912 Olympic parade (as in www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163157759/ where boaters are also in evidence), but the route according to NYT, August 25, 1912 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9403E2DB113AE633A... led down 5th Ave from 41st Street to Waverley Place, where a turn was made across to Broadway and thence to City Hall. This route does not go through Union Square.

These boys were spectators at a Democratic political rally in Union Square, New York City, on August 20, 1912. The rally was conducted by feminists and women's rights advocates who were supporters of the Democratic candidates for President and Vice President of the United States: Woodrow Wilson and Thomas R. Marshall. At one point in her presentation, Mrs. Daisy Harriman began tossing pinback campaign buttons into the crowd of young men, who surged forward, avid for souvenirs. Notice how several of them are holding their hats upside down, hoping to catch fragments of Mrs. Harriman's largesse. The upshot was that police had to be called in to calm the crowd. Here, in another Bain/LOC photo, is Mrs. Harriman, tossing her buttons:

Mrs. Vibbirt addresses the political rally in Union Square, sponsored by the Woman's National Wilson and Marshall Organization (August 20, 1912):

The street name on the lamp-post at left is "5th Ave." The plaque at the corner reads "Garfield National Bank and Garfield Safe Deposit Company." This may be the corner of Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street. See NYT August 3, 1909, query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E07E0DC123EE733A... GARFIELD BANK'S NEW HOME.; Magnificent Quarters in Fifth Avenue Building Opened Yesterday. "The Garfield National Bank, which had long stood on the corner of Twenty-third Street and Sixth Avenue, threw open to business yesterday its new quarters on Twenty-third Street and Fifth Avenue in the new Fifth Avenue Building. On the ground floor, with the bank, are the main offices of the Garfield Safe Deposit Company, ..."

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Curiosity.

This is a wonderfully staged photograph.

haha! Fantastic photograph. My bet is that neither of the women take a beating.

Kick her ass! ;)

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