madisonsquaregarden

This picture was taken BEFORE they had trucks and roads that could get them a big Adirondack Tree

More Bain/LOC photos of the 1913 tree-raising project:

Interestingly, in most of these photographs of the tree-raising in Madison Square, there are, in fact, people in the tree either tying or releasing ropes. They are only visible if you view the larger digital files over at the Library of Congress website by following the link at Persistent URL above. Quite a job!

And here I had figured that "learning the ropes" was only a seafaring term! Aye, aye Cap'n! Ahoy and avast! Batten down the mizzenmast!

The 1917 Vacation Circus was a charitable event organized by Anne Morgan and other society ladies in the arena at Madison Square Garden, "to provide outings for working girls." See NYT of March 8, 1917 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D05E5DB123BEE3AB...

Jess Willard successfully defended the heavyweight championship against Frank Moran on 25 March 1916. There's some film footage of the fight that's been put into a news reel format on YouTube.

Amazing! Thank you jschumacher for finding this footage. Beginning of the video shows off the spectacular architecture of the 1890 structure built by architect Stanford White.