Boston Trolley Strike – Historic Reproduction
(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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Boston Trolley Strike comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Boston Trolley Strike
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This glass negative documents a streetcar labor dispute in Boston, though the record gives no date and its title comes from caption information the Bain News Service supplied and that has not been independently verified. The Bain agency photographed news events in American cities from about 1900 through the 1920s, when streetcar workers across the country often struck over wages, hours, and union recognition, and such stoppages could leave city streets full of idle cars and crowds. The small glass format was typical of the agency's working negatives, so the picture is best read as a record of a moment in that wider pattern of urban labor conflict.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| 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 | 5,754 × 4,235 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-13034 |
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