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[Eight members of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Canadian Pacific Railroad Division] – Antique Print

[Eight members of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Canadian Pacific Railroad Division], [ca. 1943] — historic photograph
[Eight members of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Canadian Pacific Railroad Division], [ca. 1943]. Historic photograph from the Railroads & Depots collection.

(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: [Eight members of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Canadian Pacific Railroad Division], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Eight members of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Canadian Pacific Railroad Division, pose together in this group portrait from about 1943. The Brotherhood, founded in 1925 under A. Philip Randolph, was the first all-Black union to win a charter from the American Federation of Labor, and its members, who worked as porters on sleeping cars, fought for fair wages and hours against the Pullman Company. The print's place among Randolph's papers points to the union's reach into Canada, where its members worked the rails alongside their American counterparts.

Created / published[ca. 1943]
Medium1 photographic print : gelatin silver.
GenrePortrait photographs 1940-1950.Group portraits 1940-1950.Gelatin silver prints 1940-1950.
NotesForms part of: Photographs from the papers of A. Philip Randolph DLC/PP PR 13 - 1984:426
SubjectsBrotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters--People--1940-1950. African Americans--Organizations--1940-1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,269 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-178990

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