Mass meeting, Lawrence Common, calling off strike
- Title:
- Mass meeting, Lawrence Common, calling off strike
- Collection:
- Introduction to Photography Collections at Cornell
- Set:
- Labor and Work
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Creation Date:
- 1912-03-14
- ID Number:
- 1993-131-17
- Collection Number:
- 6692 P
- Athm Number:
- 1993.131.17
- File Name:
- 1993-131-17.jpg
- Transcription:
- Written on reverse: Mass Meeting Common March 14, 1912 Calling off strike.
- Work Type:
- photograph
- Materials/Techniques:
- gelatin silver prints
- Subject:
- Textile factories
Women employees
Weaving
Textile Industry
Women textile workers
male employees
labor movement
Bread and Roses Strike - Measurement:
- 12.75 x 9.75 (centimeters, width x height)
- Description:
- View from behind a crowd of men, women and children standing on Lawrence Common, Lawrence, MA, listening to IWW leader speaking from grandstand (in center of the frame). The top and bottom third are taken up with sky and unoccupied ground, respectively. The hundreds of people across the center of the image are dressed for cold weather in overcoats and hats, and the trees behind the bandstand are all leafless. Perambulators, bicycles, and a man standing atop a ladder are all visible near the rear of the crowd. Image taken at the meeting where the Bread and Roses Strike, a strike of textile workers, was called off. a meeting on Lawrence Common, Lawrence, MA, where the textile strike was called off.
- Cite As:
- Henry F. Bedfore Collection of Textile Related Photographs. 6692 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University.
- Repository:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University
- Archival Collection:
- Henry F. Bedfore Collection of Textile Related Photographs
- Box:
- 1
- Folder:
- 1
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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