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 Alice Brady draped in Old Glory

  

 American silent film actress and model Olive Thomas, 1915-20

[here's a sample of her work: The Flapper]

  

 At start of air mail service

  

 Becky Edelson and Louise Berger addressing anarchist gathering, 1910-15

["Capitalism: the evil; Anarchism: the remedy"]

  

Brooklyn baseball fans at the 1916 World Series seated with Jennie Veronica 

Murphy McKeever, wife of one of the Brooklyn team's owners

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 African American Civil War veterans wearing G.A.R. caps and 

uniforms and young women marching in procession, May 30, 1912

[G.A.R. = Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of 

Union Army veterans who fought in the Civil War] 

 

 At tennis tournament, Morristown - Misses Hamilton, Crag, Stephens, 

Hamilton, [Gertrude] Della Torre, Hamilton and Smith, 1910-15

  

 Bina Flynn, policeman, and others, ca. 1910

[Bina (Sabina) Flynn was the sister of noted activist Elizabeth Gurley Flynn]

 

 Boy Scouts at the Gettysburg Reunion (the Great Reunion) of July 1913, 

which commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg

  

Child consumptives seated in a circle aboard "Susquehanna", 

ferryboat used as a tuberculosis camp, 1909

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 13 theatre players named on negative

  

 Curling, Van Cortlandt Park, New York

  

 May Day in Central Park, New York, 1908

  

 May Day Parade, NY, 1910

  

Small twin girls in front of 1911 Buick roadster

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 Board walk and esplanade review, on beach, Asbury Park, New York, 1911

 Brox sisters

[they were a singing trio of vaudeville performers]

 Brox sisters
[movie clip of them]

 Brox sisters
[singing "Red Hot Mama"]

 Chicago Opera Girls knit

 German actress Hedwig Reicher wearing costume of "Columbia" 

with other suffrage pageant participants standing in background 

in front of the Treasury Building, March 3, 1913, Washington, DC

 Helen Keller & Mrs. Macy, 1913

 Jessie Stubbs and "General" Rosalie Jones, who led 

the woman suffrage hikes to Albany, NY, and Washington, DC, 1910-1915

 Mrs. H. Riordan, suffragette, New York, 1910

 New York - Paris racecars lined up to start, New York, 1908

 New York, East Side eviction

 On beach, Belmar

 Robert Cameron Beadle and Alfred H. Brown, members of 

the Men's League for Woman Suffrage with others, outside 48 East 34th St., 

headquarters of the Woman's Suffrage Party of Manhattan, 1913

Suffragette Trixie Friganza, descending steps, New York, 1908

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Back to more early 20th century American photos.

 Bastille Day celebrations, probably in New York City, 1914

 Daisy Harriman addresses a Democratic rally in Union Square, New York City, 1912

 Children's pageant at the dedication of the William J. Gaynor Park Playground 

and Recreation House in New York City, Dec. 20, 1913

 Henrietta Noble, who sought an annulment from her marriage to sailor 

William Noble on grounds that he had hypnotized her, 1914

 Mrs. Bourke Cockran, wife of New York politician William Bourke Cockran 

with Mrs. Eleanor B. Roosevelt, wife of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., 

Mrs. John Blair (Ida Chester Reid) and others, 1910-1915

 Members of the 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry at the Gettysburg Reunion of July 1913, which commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg

 Rebecca Edelsohn after her arrest for attempting to hold an open air mass meeting in Fountain Square, Tarrytown, New York on May 30, without a permit, 1914

Officials of the Poultry and Pigeon Show on the roof of Madison Square Garden in New York City, preparing to release pigeons carrying peace messages for President Wilson in Washington, DC, 1915

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 Crowd gathered in front of butcher shop during meat riot, New York, 1910

 Miss E. Brannan, Miss J.S. Schweiderman, Mrs. M.S. Smith, Mrs. John Rogers, and Miss E. Mayer holding umbrellas, New York City, May 1912

 Mrs. S. Loebinger, suffragette, speaking to crowd on street, New York, 1910

 Suffrage and labor activist Flora Dodge "Fola" La Follette (1882-1970), social reformer and missionary Rose Livingston and a young striker during a garment strike in New York City in 1913

 Suffragists Susan Walker Fitzgerald, Emma Bugbee, Maggie Murphy and Harriot Stanton Blatch at a women's suffrage parade in New York City, 1913

 Tiller Girls
  

Tiller Girls

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 Native American chiefs with Rodman Wanamaker at the groundbreaking ceremony 

for the National American Indian Memorial (which was never built), 

Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, New York

 Negroes swimming, Asbury Park, 1908

 New York City, horse overcome by heat, 1910

 New York Female Giants, baseball team, 1913

 Participants in the women's peace parade down Fifth Avenue in New York City 

on August 29, 1914, shortly after the start of World War I. 

Chief marshal Portia Willis FitzGerald is in the center.

 People on Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, New York City, 1910-1915

 People on the U.S.S. Jason which sailed from New York on November 14, 1914 carrying about 6 million gifts for the children of Europe who were affected by World War I

 Reporters (telegraphers) at a baseball game at the Polo Grounds in New York City, 1910-1915

 Strike pickets, New York, 1910

Well-dressed family of 27 Ostrovski refugees posed on deck upon arrival in New York from Russia, Sept. 16, 1921