Meeting of unemployed in Union Square, 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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Meeting of unemployed in Union Square, 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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Meeting of unemployed in Union Square, New York
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Union Square, the park where Broadway and Fourth Avenue meet, had long been a gathering place for working people and political speakers, and this glass negative shows one such assembly of men without work. The record gives the date as August 15, 1908, about a year after the Panic of 1907 cut deep into New York's businesses and left many workers unemployed. The Bain News Service, a commercial agency that sold news photographs to newspapers, made the picture, so its subject reflects what editors then considered newsworthy. The title comes from the agency's own notes and has not been independently verified.
| Created / published | 8/15/08. |
|---|---|
| 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 | 5,797 × 4,241 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-3270 |
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