progressiveparty

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/

Hiram Johnson (b 1866) was politician, Gov. of California and U.S. Senator, and founder of the PROGRESSIVE PARTY, according to Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Johnson

Arthur Garford, was a PROGRESSIVE PARTY politician as well as an Ohio industrialist and inventor of the padded bicycle seat (yeah!), according to this article at Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Garford Garford had a nice factory, photo here: omp.ohiolink.edu/OMP/Previews?oid=3082458&count=16&am... He had a nice house also, after all he was "Elyria's premier industrialist"; elyriapride.elyria.com/timemachine/houses.html

Here is an article about the Progressive Party and T.R. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Party_(United_States,_1...

"President Woodrow Wilson appointed Bainbridge Colby as his third Secretary of State on March 23, 1920. He was confirmed by the Senate and entered into duty the same day. Colby served until the end of the Wilson administration, leaving office on March 4, 1921."
history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/colby-bainbridge

"Bainbridge Colby (December 22, 1869 – April 11, 1950) was an American lawyer, a political progressive, a co-founder of the United States Progressive Party and Woodrow Wilson's last Secretary of State. Colby was a Republican until he helped co-found the National Progressive Party in 1912; he ran for multiple offices as a member of that party, but always lost."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bainbridge_Colby

See also

Thanks for the information, Art Siegel! We will include some of these details when we update the record.