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Lincoln Steffens was addressing a workers' / IWW / anarchist / socialist / rally in Union Square, New York City, on April 11, 1914. The structure from which he is speaking was more a porch than a balcony. In this photo from May 2, 1914, it is used for a suffragette rally: Here is William Jennings Bryan, speaking from the same porch, April 30, 1912: A Bain/LOC photo, not yet posted to Flickr, shows the Union Square "cottage" on May 1, 1908, during a May Day Socialist rally: luirig.altervista.org/cpm/albums/bain-27/13401-Socialists... A New York Times story (May 3, 1914) about a woman suffrage rally in Union Square refers to the speakers' platform as "the porch of the cottage" --- query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F50D1EF9355D13...

The anarchist Alexander Berkman addressed another part of the crowd on April 11, 1914:

LOC: you have misspelled both "Lincoln" and "Steffens" in your title.

Wystan and buckeye616: Thank you for your correction of the typo in the title and for the additional information on Lincoln Steffens. We will include some of it in the record for this image when we update.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Steffens

rjones0859: thanks for the identification of Lincoln Steffens. We will include his full first name in the description when we update.

He was in the NYT at least three times in early 1914: Jan 21, 1914 select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0F17FA3C541273... {very bottom} "$500 Prize for Lincoln Steffens. Andrew Carnegie, Jack London, and James Keeley, judges in the Metropolitan Magazine Shaw contest, have awarded a $500 prize to Lincoln Steffens of this city for the best reply to Bernard Shaw's "The Case for Equality."" Mar 6, 1914 select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50B16FA355D1373... "Lincoln Steffens, the writer, won much applause by advising the people present to co-operate with others and endeavor to "cure the newspapers of lying" by boycotting all the big daily papers for a week." Apr 11, 1914 select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50B16FA355D1373... "With the anarchists under Alexander Berkman, the Socialists under Lincoln Steffens, and the I.W.W. agitators under "Wild Joe" O'Carroll, each trying to gain prestige from the meeting to be held in Union Square to-day, Police Commissioner Woods took measures last night to prevent disorder. " More detailed (than Wikipedia) biographical pieces are at www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jsteffens.htm www.bookrags.com/biography/lincoln-steffens/ www.findingdulcinea.com/features/profiles/s/lincoln-steff...

This photo looks likely to have been taken on the same day as:


However, the date on the negative on this photo of him seated with hat is 4/21/14.