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I assume that the central figure here is Emmeline Pankhurst.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Feminist Art & Documentary, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

November 27, 1911 query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D00E3DB1539E3...

Is this the first known incidence of crowd surfing?

Other Bain/LOC photos of visiting British Suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst, addressing (or attempting to address) a noisy, rowdy crowd by the Subtreasury Building in Wall Street, New York City, on November 27, 1911: In the vehicle with Mrs. Pankhurst were Hariot Stanton Blatch, U. S. Suffragist leader, and the venerable Dr. Anna Howard Shaw. Mrs. Pankhurst made a return visit to America in October, 1913. On that occasion, foolish U. S. immigration officials decided to bar entry to her, holding her at Ellis Island for deportation. This created a cause celebre, and required the personal intervention of U. S. President Woodrow Wilson to admit her for an already-scheduled lecture tour. The publicity helped suffragist fundraising enormously.

An article about Mrs.Pankhurst in NYC: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F05E5D9123FE633A...

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Feminist Art & Documentary, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

November 27, 1911 query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D00E3DB1539E3...

Great photo! A tough woman in a sea of men.

Other Bain/LOC photos of visiting British Suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst, addressing (or attempting to address) a rowdy, noisy crowd of young males beside the Subtreasury Building on Wall Street, New York City, on November 27, 1911: With Mrs. Pankhurst in the open car are Hariot Stanton Blatch, U. S. Suffragist leader, and the venerable Dr. Anna Howard Shaw. Mrs. Pankhurst made a return visit to America in October, 1913. On that occasion, foolish U. S. immigration officials decided to bar entry to her, holding her at Ellis Island for deportation. This created a cause celebre, and required the personal intervention of U. S. President Woodrow Wilson to admit her for an already-scheduled lecture tour. The publicity helped suffragist fundraising enormously.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmeline_Pankhurst

Emmeline Pankhurst, the British Suffragette leader, sailed from her home in England to New York, in October, 1913. It was her third visit to the USA, where she had scheduled a busy fundraising lecture tour. Her companion on the voyage was Rheta Childe Dorr; the ladies filled time during seven days at sea compiling Pankhurst's autobiography (Dorr in the role of stenographer, Mrs. Pankhurst dictating) -- a book published in 1914 (and now available to readers online, via Google Books). But back home, Pankhurst was in trouble with the law, and U. S. immigration authorities, anticipating her arrival, used her legal troubles as a pretext to accuse her of "moral turpitude," denying her entry to the States -- indeed, they held an emergency hearing and decided to send her back to England immediately. Meanwhile she and Ms. Dorr were held in comfortable quarters at Ellis Island. The resultant newspaper publicity, and protests by American suffragists -- including Pankhurst's would-be hostess, Mrs. Oliver Hazzard Perry Belmont, one of the richest women in America -- embarrassed the government, and made it necessary for President Woodrow Wilson personally to intervene to have Mrs. Pankhurst released. The controversy brought a publicity windfall, greatly enhancing donations to the suffragist cause. New York Times story, October 20, 1913: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9505E... Here is another Bain/LOC photo from October, 1913 -- taken while Pankhurst and Dorr were being held at Ellis Island, pending deportation:

Wystan: Thanks for the additional context. We can add some information when we next update the description.