When only some hundreds of New Yorkers joined the armed forces in the
first days of World War One, Mayor John Mitchel built the USS Recruit in the middle of Union
Square. Inaugurated on Memorial Day, May 31, 1917, it eventually accounted for
25,000 recruits.
Dorothy Day would have walked past this symbol of militarism every day
while working at The Masses from May through November, 1917. The offices of the
journal are marked by the arrow in the rightmost photo.
Photos: Library
of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-B2- 4211-14, LC-B2- 4212-17,
and LC-B2- 4238-6.
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