Berkman and Marie Ganz -- Mulberry Park (LOC)

Bain News Service,, publisher.

Berkman and Marie Ganz -- Mulberry Park

[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
 Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.16066

Call Number: LC-B2- 3062-15

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  2. swanq (22 months ago | reply)

    26 Broadway (on banner with skull and crossbones is the address of the Standard Oil building and where John D. Rockefeller had his offices.

  3. swanq (22 months ago | reply)

    This IWW rally in Mulberry Park was mentioned in NYT of May 2, 1914
    query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A0CE 3D9153AE733A...
    in lefthand column of second page.

    The previous day, Marie Ganz had forced her way into the Standard Oil building, as reported in NYT of May 1, 1914
    query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9405E 1DE173AE633A...

  4. swanq (22 months ago | reply)

    A few years later she wrote a memoir, Rebels; Into Anarchy--and Out Again
    lccn.loc.gov/20000219

  5. Cynthia Wenslow (22 months ago | reply)

    Berkman is Alexander Berkman.

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  7. artolog (20 months ago | reply)

    Mulberry Park (the term used by the New York Times), also called Mulberry Bend Park, was built on the site of Mulberry Bend, the slum location exposed for its inhuman and wretched conditions of disease, filth and crime by the reformer (and photographer) Jacob Riis. The demolition of these slums and the building of the park were crusades championed by Riis.
    His account of the conditions and the building of the park (completed in 1897) is a bit long-winded, but still fascinating:
    "The Bend is laid by the Heels"
    www.bartleby.com/207/11.html

    No doubt Mulberry Bend Park's history made it an ideal place to rally May Day marchers by the Anarchists of the day, like Berkman and Ganz. From there, as the Times article cited above recounts, they marched uptown to Union Square where a sort of melee ensued.

    The Times' coverage is very colorful, though it seems unnecessarily Runyonesque and a bit condescending as well.

    Mulberry Bend Park had been renamed Columbus Park in 1911, though neither Bain nor the Times referred to it as such in 1914. Old habits die hard.
    www.nycgovparks.org/parks/M015/highlights/643 0

    A useful overview of the main characters and events of Spring, 1914 (of which the Bain Collection has many pictures) can be found at:
    userwww.sfsu.edu/~jmmoran/edelsohn.htm

  8. Debbie Bowie (10 months ago | reply)

    Marie Ganz did indeed go on to write a memoir entitled " Rebel Into Anarchy and out Again" which she co-wrote with Nat J. Ferber whom she later married and had a daughter Lenore Ferber Kahn my mother-in-law.

  9. artolog (10 months ago | reply)

    Fantastic how this project has brought in the descendants of some of the subjects. I see that Marie Ganz' memoir is now a free ebook:

    books.google.com/books?id=eKVB5pGhReUC&pr intsec=front...

  10. Arden (LOC P&P) (10 months ago | reply)

    Thanks to all for your interesting comments on this image. We will add more details to the description when we update.

  11. Debbie Bowie (10 months ago | reply)


    Thanks to the Library of Congress for sharing this bit of photographic (and for me, family) history. I would like to add to my previous statement. Although, Marie Ganz was credited as having written Rebels in collaboration with Nat J Ferber, it should be noted that he was actually the biographer of her story. She told him her story and he wrote it. Nat was a reporter for the New York American and as such he was aware of Marie since 1914 from her numerous causes Over time Nat and Marie got to know each other well.Knowing this Nat's editor Edward Leonard Bacon suggested that Nat write her story. The background to this story is well documented in Nat's Autobiography, "I Found Out - A Confidential Chronicle of the Twenties." Although, Nat and Marie fell in love Marie refused to give Hearst and the editors the satisfaction of a Happily ever after ending when she refused to marry Nat by print time. She took exception to Hearst's addition of "Into Anarchy and Out Again" to the title "Rebels."

    BTW: Alexander Berkman was called Sasha by his friends.

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  13. artolog (10 months ago | reply)

    cunews21.tumblr.com/new-york-homecoming-for-l enore-kahn

    A short piece on Lenore Kahn, daughter of Ganz and Ferber

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