Strikers - Union Sq., Clothing Strike, Oct. 1912? – Vintage 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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Strikers - Union Sq., Clothing Strike, Oct. 1912?
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Union Square in New York was a common gathering place for labor rallies, and this glass negative from October 1912 appears to show strikers assembled there during a clothing workers' walkout. The Bain News Service, a photo agency that supplied pictures to newspapers, made the negative, but its title carries a question mark, so the exact event remains unconfirmed. The autumn of 1912 brought widespread labor unrest in New York's garment trades, and pictures like this one show how workers used public squares to press their demands.
| Created / published | Oct. 1912. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,766 × 4,172 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-12480 |
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