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Strikers from New York Mills, Utica & their boarding house (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • orphanannie26 said:
    this was taken on main street New York Mills New York. building still there.
  • weedymedusa said:
    i'll try to find these and post new photos.
  • Tilead said:
    A book about the New York Mills strikes of 1912 and 1916 can be found here, with photos: www.amazon.com/New-York-Mills-Images-America/dp/073859758...

Striking waiters at Hdqrts. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Wystan said:
    Other Bain/LOC photos of striking waiters in New York City, 1912:

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...