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

Other Bain/LOC photos of the New York City 1911 garbage strike: [http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2162967843/in/photostream/

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

No, the date on the edge of Bain's negative is November 13, 1911.

Thanks for the additional information. We'll add it to the description next time we update.

"White Wings," if you don't recognize the uniforms, are street cleaners. (Wystan, I was going to ask how in the world you recognized this as Union Square, until that brick pile appeared in later photographs. Nice landmark)