Policeman snatching a rest in express strike, New York – 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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A window into the past: Policeman snatching a rest in express strike, New York, 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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Policeman snatching a rest in express strike, New York
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A uniformed officer sits down for a brief rest in the middle of a labor dispute, which sets this scene apart from the street and crowd views that make up most of the collection. The title credits the George Grantham Bain News Service, a Manhattan photo agency that supplied pictures to newspapers from the early 1900s into the 1920s, but the caption data is unverified, so the strike and date are not firmly established. Police were often posted near workplaces and depots during walkouts to keep order, and a candid pause like this one shows the long hours those officers worked. The glass negative format of the period captures fine detail in the uniform and the surroundings.
| 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 | 5,760 × 4,197 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-9911 |
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