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That is love for a cause in that weather. I hope it was all worth it when the kids saw the mammoth christmas tree.

God bless them wherever they are now

This photo blogged for a rhyme at NYC Rhymology. Thanks, L of C.

2 things--I believe this is 14th looking up broadway (since the question was raised) and that thing behind the lady, now has a statue of Gandhi on it. (I would not have picked him, but they did not ask me-lol) Does this woman look black to anyone else? I think she is, which means the Salvation Army was intergrated when almost nothing else was. Unless they only used blacks for this kind of weather. hee hee Even if she is white, they probably were intergrated. addie B)

June 2, 1913 according to date on negative. The same day, the NYT query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B00E7D8143FE633A... indicated that a big party of mothers, babies, and toddlers would be taken from East 23rd Street to Sea Breeze, Coney Island for 2 weeks. 300-500 would leave every Monday morning until October.

swang, Think you've got the wrong link here! t

Retired Rambler, Go through to the PDF and you will find a second article on Outings for the Poor. The NYT's article segmentation is not always perfect. When a piece is very short, it often is combined with the following piece.

Yes, swang the pdf url is query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B00E7D8143FE6...

swanq: What an interesting story! Thanks for sharing a bit more context for the image. When we update the record, we will be able to expand the descriptive information for this photograph.

Congratulation for your beautiful Album.

The Irish have contributed so much to America. Fought, bled, and died during the Civil War, under both the Union and Confederate Flags. John Mitchel's sons fought during the Civil war, though on the Confederate side. He had his reasons.

From the Wikipedia page of Balbriggan, 54 houses and a hosiery factory were destroyed during the "Sack of Balbriggan" on 20 September 1920. The US delegation pledged to rebuild 30 homes and a factory.

Wikipedia says:: On Monday 21 September 1920 during the night the Black and Tans sacked the town of Balbriggan in County Dublin, Ireland. ... On Clonard Street, 20 houses were destroyed. Several pubs were looted and burned including Derham’s Pub and McGowan’s Pub on George’s Hill. Overall a factory, 49 houses and four pubs were burnt down. This is presumably the ruins of the factory.

On the OSI 25" map (somewhat earlier date) there are no factorys on Clonard Street, but there is a Linen Factory on George's Hill.