News
Events
Blogs
Truck drivers' strikes
Documents strikes held by Philadelphia truck drivers carrying a variety of goods. Highlights police activity during strikes with views of men being sworn in for strike duty as deputies, police guarding merchandise, arrests, and judicial proceedings. Portrays police guarding food at several locatio...
Saved in:
| Corporate Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Photo |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
1933-1946
|
| Subjects: |
| Summary: |
Documents strikes held by Philadelphia truck drivers carrying a variety of goods. Highlights police activity during strikes with views of men being sworn in for strike duty as deputies, police guarding merchandise, arrests, and judicial proceedings. Portrays police guarding food at several locations, particularly at Dock Street Market. Includes images related to a highway department strike, an ash strike, a laundry union strike, and newspaper delivery strikes. Scenes from newspaper strikes show customers rushing to purchase papers and newstands that have no papers fro sale. Also depicts scenes resulting from the truck strike in Wilmington, Delaware, showing police making arrests and questioning people. These subject entries for the Philadelphia Record newspaper's photo morgue are primarily for Places (buildings, parks, streets, etc.), Things (Bicycles, Bison, Blind Persons [just sampling the B's]), Events (Democratic National Convention 1936, Flourtown Fair, Harvest Week) and Social Constructs (Home Economics, City Planning, Eating & Drinking, etc.). Each of these subjects became a MARC record which included a call number. In the case of these records, the call numbers are the actual folder numbers for the materials referenced. Therefore, these subject headings are really also an index for this section of the Philadelphia Record newspaper's photograph morgue. [The name section of the Philadelphia Record photo morgue represents individuals, A-Z, and |
|---|---|
| Item Description: |
Part of the Philadelphia Record Photograph Collection; for general information, see collection record. |
| Physical Description: |
82 photoprints : silver gelatin; 1 oversize photoprint |