Taxicab strike New York – Antique Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Taxicab strike New York. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Taxicab strike New York
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Drivers on the city's streets are the focus here, in a record that names a taxicab strike in New York and nothing more specific. The negative is a glass plate from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a body of work made by the Bain News Service, a commercial press photo agency that supplied newspapers and magazines with pictures of the city's news from the early 1900s into the 1920s. Strikes by cab operators in that period were usually about fares, leasing arrangements, and the long hours drivers worked to cover their costs. The date and the exact event are not recorded, so the title rests on caption data that has not been independently verified.
| 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 two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,785 × 4,223 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10023 |
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