Cincinnati car strike – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Cincinnati car strike. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Cincinnati car strike
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A 1913 glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection, this view is titled as a Cincinnati car strike, though that title comes from caption information the Bain News Service recorded and has not been independently verified. Streetcar lines in American cities were frequent sites of labor disputes in the early twentieth century, as transit workers pressed for better pay and conditions and companies sometimes brought in replacement crews. Bain News Service sold news photographs to newspapers, so pictures like this were made to be published and show how urban labor conflict was presented to a national audience.
| Created / published | 1913 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,816 × 4,254 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-14100 |
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