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www.elizabethfreeman.org/ Elisabeth Freeman (1876-1942), English-born American suffragist, also active in the anti-lynching and free speech movements.

She is such an inspirational person to us all.

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This image has been used in an Indicommons.org then-and-now post for International Women's Day. Thank you, Ms. Freeman!

Great photo.. a bit ironic.... having Freeman, as her surname....

In this one and the bible institute one, the speakers have both removed their hats.

There was a "speaker's corner", like the one in London's Hyde Park, at Madison near 23rd, in Madison Square Park. There was also a stock brokerage, Posner & Co., across the street on Madison Avenue (Their signage is on a storefront in back of the speaker). It's likely that this photo, and the ones of Philibiss were taken of orators at that corner in 1915. books.google.com/books?id=qpTJ4EMlS10C&lpg=PA14&d...

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Warwick Post Office is located on a prominent corner site to Grafton and Palmerin Street, which is the city's main thoroughfare and shopping precinct. It replaced an earlier post office designed in a quasi-Georgian Colonial manner in 1884. It is not clear whether this earlier post office was on the same site. Warwick Post Office is an example of: * a post and telegraph office with quarters (second generation typology 1870–1929). * the Baroque Revival grand Manner in the 1900s fashion, with some Federation elements. * a large annexe building in a 1940s early Modern-Scandinavian Classicist manner. * the work Queensland Government Architect Andrew BartonBrady, possibly assisted by G D Payne. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warwick_Post_Office