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Colliery Lasses, British Coal strike (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

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  • Pitheadgear said:
    From the time of the 1912 (negative is dated) minimum wage strike which lasted 12 weeks
  • Retired at last said:
    That's not a date, it's a reference number. Which doesn't mean it's not the 1912 strike, just that we don't have a date to confirm it.
  • Pitheadgear said:
    The two British coal strikes which the press photographically documented between 1910 and 1915 were the 1911 and 1912 strikes with the 1912 minimum wage strike featuring most strongly, it's tantalising to think that -12 means 1912!
  • Retired at last said:
    If you look at a range of the photos from this collection on glass slides they all have a reference number, four digits, hyphen, one or two digits. When they have a date, it's been scratched onto the back and shows up as thin mirror writing. So it still could be either 1911 or 1912.
  • Pitheadgear said:
    True, to add a bit more I'll say as they are termed 'colliery lasses' they are from the Lancashire Coalfield (the term was predominantly used in that area). Its probably the Wigan area where photographers always headed for female colliery worker images, and it's probably the 1912 strike. Take it as an informed guess, I've been researching this coalfield's history for 35 years! You'll have to come over when you retire and we'll give you a guided tour of the Wigan Coalfield Regards www.newsfromnowhere.org.uk/books/BookEnquiryForm.php?ISBN...

Holding strikers in check, Lawrence, Mass. (LOC)

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  • 2kjb said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Lawrence, MA, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
  • Susan Barsy said:
    I used this image to illustrate a brief article I wrote about Big Bill Haywood, the IWW, and the Bread and Roses strike, pictured here. susanbarsy.com/2012/10/06/big-bill-haywood/
  • Greg said:
    Great to see the pictures used! Find many more on the Library of Congress website!

Strikers leave mills, Passaic (LOC)

from The Library of Congress