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November 8 - November 11, 1911 New York City Garbage Strike

No -- the photos are dated November 13, 1911.

Other Bain/LOC photos from the 1911 New York City garbage strike:

The New York City garbage strike was put down by a massive hiring of strikebreakers, but outbursts of resistance continued until the end of November, as documented by stories in The New York Times. Cleanup efforts dragged on into December. "Strikers Plead to be Taken Back" New York Times story, November 21, 1911: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A02E3DC1231E2...

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Police History, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

Thanks for adding this to the Police History Group -- Seen in Police History (?)

November 8 - November 11, 1911 New York City Garbage Strike

wonderful picture, very wonderful

Au contraire: the date on this and other Bain photos is November 13, 1911.

Leach Cross (b. 1886) was known as "the fighting dentist." He was indeed a dentist, born Louis Wallach in an Orthodox Jewish immigrant family on the Lower East Side. He won forty-three fights and fought five champions to draws. See Ellis Island to Ebbets Field: Sport and the American Jewish Experience by Peter Levine (Oxford University Press 1992). Carl Morris (1887-1951) was a Kentucky fighter known as "the Original White Hope." cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/morris-c.htm

And ... Zeca Floriano ? He was a brazilian sportsman,son of "Marechal Floriano Peixoto",the second president of Brazil !

those look like some bad mofo's

Louis de Ponthieu, the French lightweight query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9500EED7123CE633A...

Here's Carl's record at boxrec.com.