waiters

Looks like a waiter's strike of November, 1918. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B0CE3DB113BEE3AB...

It looks like the negative is dated 5/31/12 so probably not this particular event. We'll add the date to the source catalog.

I started an entry in Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1912_New_York_City_waiters'_strike The Waiters strike that expanded in 1912-1913: WAITERS OUT IN 17 MORE PLACES; Strikes at Vanderbilt, Martinique, Manhattan, Sherry's, Shanley's, and Mouquin's. June 1, 1912, Saturday The war of the waiters was waged furiously yesterday from early morning till night -- from breakfast time until the dinner hour -- and when the striking hotel workers gathered last evening to recount their victories at a mass meeting their leaders could report that seventeen hotels and restaurants had been wounded during the day. Source: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9901E3D9153CE633A... URGE CHAMBERMAIDS TO JOIN THE UNION; Rose Pastor Stokes and Other Speakers Appeal to Women Hotel Workers. June 9, 1912, Sunday The doors of Bryant Hall, in Sixth Avenue, below Forty-second Street, were thrown wide yesterday to admit the women hotel workers -- chambermaids, laundresses and scrubwomen -- who were summoned to a massmeeting designed to stir the spirit of unionism among them, whom, so far, it has not particularly moved. Source: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F03E7D6103AE633A... YOUNG WOMAN LEADS THE WAITERS' STRIKE; Miss Flynn the Real Power Behind the Men -- Carries Anti-Tip Proposal. January 14, 1913, Tuesday Miss Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, the I.W.W. organizer, who was the principal speaker at a mass meeting of the International Hotel Workers' Union in Bryant Hall last night, took her audience by surprise by springing a proposal against tip-taking, and after considerable uproar and wrangling in four languages the final vote was unanimous against accepting gratuities if a living wage could be obtained from the hotel proprietors. Source: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F01E6D8123BE633A...

I don't know why, but these old photos almost ever have a very delicate greyscale. I love that :)

Max Bosselmann We agree Max, it only increases their vintage appeal.

This newspaper article seems quite relevant for this wedding reception: trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/23600443

*Kaye's Imagery* Thanks so much for your detective work! We think it is very likely a photograph of the "tete-a-tete" reception mentioned in the newspaper article you found. We're going to look more into Nunnington House and confirm. We can then add names too at least the bride and groom and a link to the articles in our catalogue. Thanks again from the SLQ Discovery Team.

A bit of background research has confirmed this is the wedding reception of Captain Hubert Carter and Miss Violet Smith in the grounds of 'Nunnington' at Kangaroo Point, Queensland.

Fitzgerald's Bar was at 6th Ave. and W 44th according to a photo in "Gotham Comes of Age: New York Through the Lens of the Byron Company, 1892-1942", By Peter Simmons, Contributor Peter Simmons, E. L. Doctorow, Published 1999.

More Bain/LOC photos of striking waiters in New York City, 1912: