Dressmakers Union float, Labor Parade, New York – Antique Wall Art
(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: Dressmakers Union float, Labor Parade, 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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Dressmakers Union float, Labor Parade, New York
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Floats from the city's trade unions were a familiar sight in New York's Labor Day parades, and this glass negative shows one from the Dressmakers Union. The date on the record, 9/6/09, corresponds to September 6, 1909, which was Labor Day that year. Bain News Service, the photo agency whose work fills this collection, made many such pictures for the press, and the title comes from its own caption data, which has not been independently verified. Garment workers, many of them immigrant women, were central to the city's labor movement in these years, so the float is a window onto that organizing.
| Created / published | 9/6/09. |
|---|---|
| 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 | 5,810 × 4,272 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-5437 |
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