Crowds outside Madison Square Garden (third incarnation*) at Eighth Ave. and 50th Street, September 1, 1938. There's a lot of detail in this picture if you enlarge it.
*The first two had actually been on Madison Square.
#OTD in Irish History | 1 September (Meán Fómhair):
1737 – Launch of the Belfast News Letter, now the oldest surviving newspaper in Ireland or Britain, and one of the oldest in the world.
1729 – Death of dramatist, essayist and publisher Sir Richard Steele, the Dubliner who founded The Tatler and The Spectator.
1789 – Marguerite Power Farmer Gardiner, Countess of Blessington; author, is born near Clonmel, Co Tipperary.
1814 – Birth of James…
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New York put on a show for visiting British servicemen, September 1, 1943. Gunner Leonard Senior laughs himself into tears as Gunner Edward Ellis almost drops his pie in listening to the gags of a comic. (Was this the Broadway Canteen? No info on this.)