progressive

But where's Teddy?!

A "Bull Mooser" was a supporter of the Progressive Party, important in the 1912 Presidential election.

And the 2-8-8-0 locomotive arrangement was known as the "Bull Moose". I'd never heard of the political connection, but the name probably came from it (it was the most powerful type of locomotive at the time).

4th man from the left is Louis Hill, son of James J. Hill most likely taken same time and place as LC-B2- 2527-14 Saint Paul Minnesota Union Depot

The photo was taken at a reception for New York Bull Moose gubernatorial candidate Oscar Straus, held at the Port Washington, Long Island, home of Bull Moose congressional candidate (and former Congressman) Bourke Cockran, on September 28, 1912 -- a kick-off event for the fall campaign of the Bull Moose (Progressive) Party in Nassau County. Story in The New York Times, September 29, 1912: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F04EFD9113AE6... Other Bain/LOC photos of the Lawn Fete for Oscar Straus:

LOC: Cockran's name is misspelled in your title, as well as in Bain's.

Don't know who Alice Carpenter was, but the young men of day sure liked her!

Looks like the sign says Elm Street & Worth Street in lower Manhattan - that subway entrance might be for this abandoned station

Here is an article that mentions Alice Carpenter and the Progressive Party, and explains the wild political developments of 1912. www.theodoreroosevelt.org/life/bullmoose.htm

Suffragist Alice Carpenter was the head of the Woman's Department of the National Progressive Party. In the photo above, she is addressing a streetcorner crowd in support of the Progressive Party's candidate for President, Theodore Roosevelt. Here is Ms. Carpenter's note to The New York Times (August 30, 1912), attacking the anti-Roosevelt writer, Gertrude Atherton: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2948784299/