Express Strike – 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.)
Description
A window into the past: Express Strike, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The title "Express Strike" suggests a labor dispute, though the record does not name the company, union, or city involved. The negative is a glass plate from the Bain News Service, a New York picture agency that supplied news photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century, and the title comes from caption information written at the time that has not been independently verified. Strikes of that era often drew crowds and police to rail yards, depots, and city streets, so the scene may show workers, pickets, or onlookers, but the specific subject remains unconfirmed.
| 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 | 5,766 × 4,210 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10001 |
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