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I'm interested to see how these women wear their shawls - quite short and pinned at the middle back. Styles of wearing shawls were often very distinctive, and specific to locations. Hopefully someone will recognise this market place and reveal where it was.

Have asked the curator about this, to see if there are any clues (or writing) as to where the photo's image originates. Fingers crossed!

Wow. I love how this is shot. It's a great portrait. It made me feel I was there. Damn, I wish I was there. I probably was. Was...

What I really love about this shot is the fact that she is really smiling. That is so rare for a photo taken at a time when the norm was the straight almost scowling face. Very nice!

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called THE CIRCLE OF WISDOM, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Little Falls , NY was in the news in late 1912 for a textile workers strike. This could be associated with that. See, for example, query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9901E1D61630E233A...

Swang: Could be. What do you make of the speaker's last name? Caley or Calery?

That chap looks like he's carrying a set of chimney sweeping rods.

There was a Phil Callery who was a socialist labor lawyer. The photo on this page: library.pittstate.edu/spcoll/ndxcallerys.html looks very much like the man speaking.

j3net, I'd guess that you have the right guy. I was definitely looking for socialists, but can't have tried that variation on the name. Well done.

An anarchist rally in Union Square, New York City, dated by Bain as March 21, 1914. Several Bain/LOC photos of a massive Union Square anarchist-IWW-socialist rally on April 11, 1914, already have been posted on Flickr. This one shows the celebrated anarchist, Alexander Berkman, speaking: