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Bakers and big loaf - Labor parade, New York, May 1, 1909 – Vintage Print

Bakers and big loaf - Labor parade, New York, May 1, 1909, 1909 May 1. — historic photograph
Bakers and big loaf - Labor parade, New York, May 1, 1909, 1909 May 1.. Historic photograph from the New York City collection.

(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 giant papier-mâché or wooden loaf carried through the streets sets this picture apart from other views of New York's May 1, 1909 labor parade. The prop would have told onlookers at a glance which trade was marching. May Day had become a date for labor demonstrations in New York and other cities, and unions and socialist groups often turned out in large numbers. The photograph comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a body of news pictures that Bain's agency supplied to newspapers in the early twentieth century, so it shows the event as the press of the day saw it.

Created / published1909 May 1.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesTitle and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,163 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-114763

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