World War I-era U.S. Navy recruiting station in Madison Square Park, ca. 1917.

In the foreground, the front page of a New York Evening Telegram is visible, with above the fold headlines reading “Save Venice Allies; Mr Poincare Acts to End Cabinet Crisis; Kerensky Wins; Finn Report,” dispatches from the wartime and political crises on the Continent. In September, 1917 (a possible date of this photo), Venice endured aerial bombardment, French President Raymond Poincaré endeavored to form a government, and Alexander Kerensky, then the Russian Premier proclaimed the short-lived Russian Republic.