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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/

The Bull Moose party was another name for the United States Progressive Party of 1912 and was a political party created in the United States by a split in the Republican Party in the presidential election of 1912. It was formed by Theodore Roosevelt when he lost the Republican nomination to Howard Taft and pulled his delegates out of the convention. Info gained from wikipedia

rollerskating must have been loads of fun on those cobblestones

OMG she has a bird for a hat!

According to the 1918 Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almanac, an L.L. Bonheur was manager of the Theatre Francaise, 35th Street near 6th Avenue. Mrs. & B. Cochran remain a mystery to me.

O. Straus is undoubtedly Oscar Straus, of the family which controlled Macy's Department Store by the 1910s. Oscar was the younger brother of Isador Straus who went down with the Titanic. He was the first Jewish cabinet member, serving as Secretary of Commerce and Labor under President Theodore Roosevelt from 1906-1909. Not surprising that he was hanging with TR, Jr. at whatever event this photo depicts.

Oscar Straus was also the Progressive Party candidate for governor of NY in 1912. This might be a photo from the campaign. The winner of the election was William Sulzer and there are other LOC photos of him on Flickr (he was impeached soon after he took office.)

Here is article about younger Roosevelt:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt,_Jr.

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Anyone know who the Mrs. B Cochran is? Her husband's name too? My maiden name is Cochran. I've been told that a grandfather (several greats in front of the grand) was in the Congress of Williamsburg. Would be interesting to see if I could track down whether or not I was related to this Cochran in the picture.