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The parade was for the unveiling of the Fireman's memorial on the site at 100th Street and Riverside Drive, and on Sept. 5, 1913, 10,000 people assembled for the unveiling. Four girls -- Margaret Dow, 10, May Boyne, 12, Florence Walsh, 11, and Mary Connolly, 10 -- took down two large United States flags that covered the monument. All four were daughters of firemen killed in the line of duty.

The unveiling of the memorial was a national event, which attracted delegations of visiting firemen from all over the U.S.

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The photo is beautiful

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Based on the higher-res version of this image on the LOC website, these windows say something like "National Cloak & Suit." According to the NYT, the National Cloak and Suit Company occupied "the entire west side of the block on Seventh Avenue between Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Street" in New York City. A look at Google Maps' Street View confirms that it's this location, 250 Seventh Avenue, currently a Whole Foods store. There is also an October 10, 1912 story about city-wide fire drill exercises the previous day, one of which took place at the building, so this picture could have been taken on October 9, 1912, unless there other fire drills of this type taken in other years.

Thanks, epicharmus! We will add a note to the source data and reload the description.

Bain News Agency has placed the date on the bottom of the photo: 10/9/12. Here is another view of the fire drill, in the adjacent photo in Bain's photostream:

Joseph Johnson en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Johnson_(FDNY_Commissioner)

And William Jay Gaynor, Mayor of New York City from 1910 to 1913.

Katy Silberger and whyduck: Thanks for the additional information. We will add the more complete names for Gaynor and Johnson to the source data and then reload it to Flickr.