Penn. R.R. men talk 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.)
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Penn. R.R. men talk strike
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Men of the Pennsylvania Railroad are shown talking over a strike, a subject that pressed hard on the country's rail lines for much of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The title, "Penn. R.R. men talk strike," comes from caption data the Bain News Service recorded on the negative or its card, and the record gives no date or specific dispute, so that label is unconfirmed. Bain's agency sold New York news photographs to newspapers and magazines in the early twentieth century, which makes pictures like this useful for seeing how labor unrest was reported in print. Railroad walkouts had been a national issue since the 1877 strikes, and the Pennsylvania was one of the largest carriers affected.
| 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 | 3,000 × 2,201 px · prints to 10 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-9624 |
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