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Line outside Hippodrome Theater in New York to buy tickets to one of what turned out to be Luisa Tetrazzini's many farewell tours. She sang there on November 30, 1919 and again on May 14, 1920.
query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A03E7D7153BEE32A...

The regular show at the Hippodrome at the time (8/23/1919 - 5/15/1920) was Happy Days -- www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/happy-days-6673

Check out Alexander Woolcott's review: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D01E4D6133DE5...

6th Avenue, corner 12th St NYC looking north Tall building above lady's hat is 510 6th Ave/65 West 13th Street, n.e. corner of 13th Street

Maybe Merle Alcock, opera singer? www.nytimes.com/1975/03/04/archives/merle-alcock-a-contra...

Bingo! Per Smithsonian:
"This is a Promotional Post Office Department photograph showing opera star Merle Alcock, who is using a new style street collection mailbox, built by the Van Dorn Iron Works of Cleveland, Ohio."

In addition to NYT obit linked above, biographical info under

Good catch! David Pirmann Street view Sept. 1917 www.google.com/maps/place/W+12th+St+%26+6th+Ave,+New+York...

quite a theme in this upload. this is fantastic!!!! from our perspective as well as from its power of expression( not merely a blogg or headline scrawled across a tv screen.

George H. Kendall was the president of the New York Bank Note Company, which amongst other things, printed stock certificates. That matter was the root of a long running dispute with the NYSE. From the New York Times of March 10, 1913 : "The fight between the exchange and Mr. Kendall is an old one. He said at the hearing it had been going on for thirty-four years. He has sued the exchange and its members and the case is pending in the United States District Court. From time to time he has exhibited on his building inlower sixth avenue enormous painted signs denouncing the "thieves of the New York Stock Exchange." Some of the signs are in place at the present time. " (ref. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9903E2D9103CE633A... ) See a raft of New York Times stories on the dispute here: query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch?query=George+H.+endal...

I started a Wikipedia entry for him: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._Kendall

I don't know what this picture means but I'm favoriting it anyway!

what an incredible missive! you don't see many businesses wear the heart on the sleeve this, let alone wrap their heart as a banner around their place of business.