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First convention of National Women's Trade Union League, Richmond, Va., November 1907 – Historic Reproduction

First convention of National Women's Trade Union League, Richmond, Va., November 1907, 1907 — historic print
First convention of National Women's Trade Union League, Richmond, Va., November 1907, 1907. Historic print from the Richmond 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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First convention of National Women's Trade Union League, Richmond, Va., November 1907

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The image records the first convention of the National Women's Trade Union League, held in Richmond, Virginia, in November 1907. The league was founded in 1903 to organize women workers into trade unions and to press for better wages, shorter hours and safer conditions, and it drew support from both working women and middle-class reformers. Holding its inaugural national gathering in Richmond, a Southern industrial city, was notable at a time when women's labor organizing was still contested, and the photograph preserves a record of that meeting. Because this halftone reproduces an earlier photoprint, the surviving image is a secondhand copy, so fine details of the delegates are hard to make out.

Created / published1907
Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
SubjectsHalftone repro. of photoprint. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Va.--Richmond--Misc.--1907; Congresses...--1907; Women--Labor Org.--1907; Women--Empl.; Conventions; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,155 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-142391

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