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Beautiful banner! Wonder if it still survives...

Not the steps of the Imperial hotel...

It's the courthouse in Waterford:


Streetview does not get very close.

Sheerness was a cargo ship, and was wrecked at the Tuskar Rock in 1927.

These men worked hard for their pay. I'd imagine more than a few of those pictured had an opinion (and probably input) into the general strike we spoke about late last week. Seemingly the NS&FU joined in the 1890s with other Waterford-based union branches to reduce the working-day to 10 hours, and gain an extra few shillings a week for the dock workers also. As with Carol Maddock, I'd love to think the banner survives. Might need the OFarl to contribute on that.... www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/31575454304/ EDIT: Connolly and Larkin and the ITGWU (representing the dock workers) seemingly did not always have a good relationship with Havelock Wilson and the NS&FU (representing the ship workers). Not helped I guess that Wilson's union was UK-based, and that an action by either group would (if not coordinated) affect the workers of the other union. It looks like members of the Dublin NS&FU branch joined the 1913 lockout however - even if the ITGWU seemingly covered their strike pay rather than the NS&FU itself....

Crew of the Sheerness in 1915.

A Naval Militia in the USA is usually part of the State defence organization. Here's info on New York's one: www.dmna.state.ny.us/nynm/naval.php

The dates on both the negative and the sticker begin with 4 and end with 7 or 17, indicating April 1917. The original day of the month appears to have been changed, possibly corrected.

So here's another instance of Bain's reuse of a 1913 military photo after Wilson's (and Congress's) declaration of war against Germany (April 6, 1917).

I read the date on the sticker as 4/7/17 (April 7, 1917)

@technogeo --- that was the day after the U. S. declared war on Germany, and entered World War I (April 6, 1917). So the sticker must have been placed deliberately to cover the earlier scratched-on date, and allow reuse of the 1913 photo to publicize war preparedness.

Recycled photos as propaganda! Nicely done, Wystan!

You are right. That sailor is getting yelled at for his kit being out of place.