Parade of unemployed men, carrying signs, New York – Antique Wall Art
(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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This rare historic photograph captures Parade of unemployed men, carrying signs, New York in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Parade of unemployed men, carrying signs, New York
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Men carrying signs in a parade through New York set this glass negative apart from the many street scenes and portraits in the Bain collection. The record gives the date as May 31, 1909, which falls within the years after the Panic of 1907, when many urban workers lost jobs and unemployed people sometimes organized public demonstrations. George Grantham Bain's agency supplied photographs like this to newspapers, which is why the scene survives with its caption information. The title comes from data recorded by the Bain News Service and has not been independently verified, so the exact location and purpose of the march remain open questions.
| Created / published | 5/31/09. |
|---|---|
| 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 one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,747 × 4,223 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-4592 |
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