tarrytown

Wonder how many minks died to make those coats?

That's railroad magnate George Jay Gould (1864-1923): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jay_Gould_I (One of his morbid claims to fame is that he was a victim of the "mummy's curse," dying from pneumonia soon after visiting the tomb of Tutankhamen.) The little girl is probably the ill-fated Gloria Gould Bishop Barker (1906-1943), who would marry twice before drowning in her swimming pool at 37: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Gould The other one is probably Edith Catherine Gould Wainwright MacNeal (Lady MacNeal) (1902?-1937), who also married twice before dying young; her son Stuyvesant Wainwright II (b. 1921) was briefly a Congressman. He's apparently at his sister Helen Miller Gould's 1913 wedding to Finley Johnson Shepard: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Miller_Gould

The fur worn by the children is ermine.

very interesting ... always nice to have a look into the past :)

best shot

Rebecca Edelsohn (b. c1890) was a hunger striker and anarchist, and at one time a companion of Alexander Berkman's:
userwww.sfsu.edu/~jmmoran/edelsohn.htm

I started a Wikipedia entry:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Edelsohn

Another Bain/LOC photo related to the I. W. W. hunger strikers:

"I. W. W. INVADES TARRYTOWN"
New York Times story, May 31, 1914:
query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F40D1FFD345D13...

Full size versions of the Becky Edelson pictures from the Bain Collection are now on Wikimedia Commons:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Becky_Edelson

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Berkman

Other Bain/LOC photos related to the I. W. W. hunger strikers:

Helen Harris identified as "Helen of Troy": Berkman, who was accompanied by a girl known as "Helen of Troy," but who gave her name as Helen Harris, walked around town followed by a crowd of thousands. — Greensburg Daily Tribune, 1 June 1914 Her actual last name might be Goldblat(t): Alexander Berkman and Becky Edelson led 20 anarchists into a police station early today ... Helen Goldblat, known as "Helen of Troy;" her sister, Lillian; William Shatoff and Abraham Blecker. — The Day 9 November 1914 Helen Goldblatt, known as "Helen of Troy," and her sister Lillian, who completed week ago ten days' sentences in tile Workhouse — New York Times 27 November 1914 (Lillian might be Lillian Rubel.)

Thanks so much for connecting up the pictures, people, and event, and finding several sources that help identify Helen Harris/of Troy/Goldblatt (an oral history of the Anarchist movement spells it with two t's). We'll add information to the description when we update.