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The mirroring of headstones, buildings and smokestacks is just a compositional masterpiece. Always loved this and used a reference image when I taught black and white photography classes in college.

Now home of a Sands Casino (as of Memorial Day weekend 2009). www.pasands.com/default.aspx

What a statement this photo makes. It is a prophecy of the AMERICAN FUTURE IN INDUSTRY...

There is a story to tell here, a story about the greatest generation, a story about the life and death of America's steel industry, a story too, about crosses and the ACLU's efforts to remove them. Don't let the ACLU mess with Christianity, please--or any other religion. We are a free country with freedom to believe what we want. I don't believe we need a religious police force or a group of GOD COPS censoring our spirituality. Amen...

The name of this cemetery is St. Micheal's. It lies on the sloping side of a low moutain on the south side of Bethlehem Pennsylvania. This was the side of the town where the mill stood. It was the side that the workers lived on as you can see by the row homes in the picture. As the plant closed and the jobs disappeared many families were forced to leave. Shops and lunch counters closed with no noon rush to keep them open. The south side became run down, buildings sat empty and this cemetery was neglected and vandalized. Behind where Evans stood to shoot this image, the graves continue up into the tree line. Many do not contain a word of English, baring testament to the various ethnic groups that had come here to work at the steel. Some, such as a plain cross cut from sheet metal show just how hard some people were struggling.

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being related to the "dynamite conspiracy" and the troubles with the Iron Workers Union www.geocities.com/ironworkers373/iwhistory3b.html query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=950CE3D7173CE6...

nudecowboy: thanks for supplying the context and sources. We'll update the source data and reload the description.

This exact photo was used on Page 3 of the April 26, 1911 Washington Post. The arrest of McNamara happened on April 23, so the photo was taken sometime in the interim. The barn was rented by John J. McNamara. Owned by "T. H" or "D." or "F. M." Jones (different Washington Post articles), a half mile or 3/4 mile west of Indianapolis. Dynamite and nitroglycerine were found inside. A photo of "F. M." Jones accompanies this photo in the April 26 1911 Washington Post.

nudecowboy decided to put on a kilt? Heehee...ahem.

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

From Washington Post on May 1, 1911, page 1. A fire swept through Bangor, Maine, destroying "one third of the city" on April 30, 1911. Presumably the photo is within a few days after.

Wow. The things you find. I was born in Bangor.

According to the 1882 Bangor City directory, there was a "Charles H Fifield, sign and carriage painter at 14 York St. This might be his shop shown (note the sign in the background). *oh, and Eric in SF, my grandfather was born in Bangor too.

This is a well known photo of the aftermath, I have always wondered where the original resides.