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AKA Princess Marie of Edinburgh, granddaughter of Queen Victoria; her wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_of_Romania

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26 Broadway (on banner with skull and crossbones is the address of the Standard Oil building and where John D. Rockefeller had his offices.

This IWW rally in Mulberry Park was mentioned in NYT of May 2, 1914 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A0CE3D9153AE733A... in lefthand column of second page. The previous day, Marie Ganz had forced her way into the Standard Oil building, as reported in NYT of May 1, 1914 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9405E1DE173AE633A...

A few years later she wrote a memoir, Rebels; Into Anarchy--and Out Again lccn.loc.gov/20000219

Berkman is Alexander Berkman.

Mulberry Park (the term used by the New York Times), also called Mulberry Bend Park, was built on the site of Mulberry Bend, the slum location exposed for its inhuman and wretched conditions of disease, filth and crime by the reformer (and photographer) Jacob Riis. The demolition of these slums and the building of the park were crusades championed by Riis. His account of the conditions and the building of the park (completed in 1897) is a bit long-winded, but still fascinating: "The Bend is laid by the Heels" www.bartleby.com/207/11.html No doubt Mulberry Bend Park's history made it an ideal place to rally May Day marchers by the Anarchists of the day, like Berkman and Ganz. From there, as the Times article cited above recounts, they marched uptown to Union Square where a sort of melee ensued. The Times' coverage is very colorful, though it seems unnecessarily Runyonesque and a bit condescending as well. Mulberry Bend Park had been renamed Columbus Park in 1911, though neither Bain nor the Times referred to it as such in 1914. Old habits die hard. www.nycgovparks.org/parks/M015/highlights/6430 A useful overview of the main characters and events of Spring, 1914 (of which the Bain Collection has many pictures) can be found at: userwww.sfsu.edu/~jmmoran/edelsohn.htm

Renaud Camus: Thank you for your comment, and close attention! You are right, considering that Princess Ileana was born in January 1909 and is clearly still quite young in this photo, so her mother was Crown Princess Marie at the time, not Queen. This photograph was likely acquired by the Bain News Service in October 1914 when she became Queen of Romania. It was not uncommon for Bain to use older portrait photographs in this way. In the interest of preserving the archival record, we try to leave Bain's given titles (in this case, Queen of Rumania), but we can add more information to the record to clarify that this photo dates from an earlier year.

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Photo by Atelier Elvira, Munich: "The Hofatelier Elvira (tr. Court atelier Elvira, also known as Atelier Elvira or Salon Elvira) was a photography studio in Munich founded by jurist and actress Anita Augspurg and friend photographer Sophia Goudstikker in 1887 and is notable as the first company founded by women in Germany. A branch also existed in Augsburg from 1891. They became especially famous for their work in the feminist movement." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofatelier_Elvira