Brooklyn Police on car strike duty – Historic 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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Brooklyn Police on car strike duty
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Officers stand guard over Brooklyn's streets during a car strike, when transit workers walked off the job and police were posted to keep order around the trolleys and the crowds that gathered near them. The record carries no date, and the title comes from caption data that Bain News Service supplied and that has not been independently verified, so the exact strike and location remain uncertain. The picture belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, a body of news photographs that the Bain News Service, a New York agency, produced and distributed in the early twentieth century. Its glass negatives give a useful record of how urban labor disputes looked on the street.
| 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 | 5,741 × 4,141 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11003 |
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