Police work over Silverstein at anarchist riot, Union Square, New York – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Police work over Silverstein at anarchist riot, Union Square, New York, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Police work over Silverstein at anarchist riot, Union Square, New York
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Police are shown restraining a man named Silverstein during an anarchist disturbance in Union Square, though the record gives no date and the title comes from unverified Bain News Service caption information. Union Square was a common gathering place for labor rallies and radical speakers in the early 1900s, and police often moved in to break up crowds there. The photograph comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a large body of news photographs made in New York and elsewhere during the early twentieth century, and its glass-plate format reflects the period's press photography. Viewers may want to look closely at the crowd and the officers' positions to understand how such confrontations unfolded.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,803 × 4,272 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-1502 |
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