[Borges]

Douglas Fairbanks holding up Charlie Chaplin on Wall Street in 1918.

[mountn man]

Interesting.

Charlie Chaplin, a communist, on Wall Street.

[knarf]

Amazing!

What's the story ?

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Were all those people assembled there just to see Chaplin?

[Signalman]

Hey, where are all the slobs in the crowd wearing shorts, tank tops and shower sandals? Oh, that’s right, this is not modern-day America.

[Theoria]

nice.

'Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks Selling Liberty Loans During the Third Loan Campaign at the Sub-Treasury Building on Wall Street, New York City'

[steve86]

What a stupid photo.

[Kenny Bunk]

Fairbanks was very brave. Remember, this was before hand-sanitizers.

[Para-Ord.45]

1.Fairbanks has his hand up his ass.

2.Who`s the midget?

[Red_Devil 232]

Oh man, the hat manufactures sure were making loads of money back then! Suits too!

[Dick Bachert]

That’s about 5 years after fedzilla and the Federal Reserve began HOLDING UP all the rest of us.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

For those behind a firewall, you need to truncate the “https”

[Yaelle]

There are a few guys without hats. Wonder what was thought of those guys.

[Yossarian]

Good photography is made of light, composition, and subject matter. This picture has a striking subject matter, is good enough on the light, and is a love-letter to the compositional "rule of thirds" & "diagonals":

[ETL]

A PLACE IN HISTORY: Federal Hall on Wall Street was the site of George Washington's inauguration. A statue of the first president stands in front of the building.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/united-states/nyc-site-of-first-presidential-inauguration-51650.html

[Revolting cat!]

AN IMPORTANT NOTE TO VIEWERS: All persons shown in the photograph, including those not wearing hats, are currently dead.

[a fool in paradise]

It’s not so special.

The photographer missed that cute thing teh kitteh was doing out of frame.

[ETL]

"The Wall Street bombing occurred at 12:01 pm on Thursday, September 16, 1920, in the Financial District of New York City. The blast killed 38 and seriously injured 143.[1]:160-161 The bombing was never solved, although investigators and historians believe the Wall Street bombing was carried out by Galleanists (Italian anarchists), a group responsible for a series of bombings the previous year.

The attack was related to postwar social unrest, labor struggles and anti-capitalist agitation in the United States."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_bombing

[MinuteGal]

Politics aside.....as a dyed-in-the-wool classical movies buff I can't tell you how extremely interesting I found the photo.

Two of the greatest cinematic stars of all time in one picture during the "Great War", the "War to End All Wars"...

Thanks for posting such a treasure.

Leni

[Revolting cat!]

Chaplin was a Soviet sympathizer like the rest of Hollywood then and until the very end of the Soviet Union, otherwise he wouldn’t have been able to find work there.

[Hammerhead]

look at all those hats!