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Depicts striking workers from the Great Lakes Steel Corporation in Detroit. Documents 1938 strike of the Crucible Steel Company plants in Jersey City and Harrison, N.J. Contains an exterior view of the CIO headquarters in Jersey City. Portrays John Roebling & Sons steel workers after receivin...
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1937-1946
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Depicts striking workers from the Great Lakes Steel Corporation in Detroit. Documents 1938 strike of the Crucible Steel Company plants in Jersey City and Harrison, N.J. Contains an exterior view of the CIO headquarters in Jersey City. Portrays John Roebling & Sons steel workers after receiving a dousing by police during a strike. Documents a striker killed by a tear gas gun fired at close range at the Moltrup Steel Products Coropration in Beaver Falls, Pa. Shows pickets sympathetic to steel workers at a Republic Steel Corporation mine. Portrays steel workers in Pittsburgh plants casting strike ballots. Depicts Carnegie dIllinois workers casting strike ballots in Homestead, and a memorial to the victims of 1892 strike violence. Portrays Carnegie-Illinois picketers in Pittsburgh collecting union dues from workers entering the plant. Includes images of strike activity at Jones & Laughlin in Aliquippa, highlighting picketers, an attack on a gate crasher, and the celebration at the end of the strike. 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 |
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Part of the Philadelphia Record Photograph Collection; for general information, see collection record. |
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18 photoprints : silver gelatin |