Leading the parade when children came home
- Title:
- Leading the parade when children came home
- Collection:
- Introduction to Photography Collections at Cornell
- Set:
- Labor and Work
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Creation Date:
- 1912
- ID Number:
- 1993-131-18
- Collection Number:
- 6692 P
- Athm Number:
- 1993.131.18
- File Name:
- 1993-131-18.jpg
- Transcription:
- Written on reverse: "Leading the parade when kiddies came home."
- Work Type:
- photograph
- Materials/Techniques:
- gelatin silver prints
- Subject:
- Textile factories
Women employees
Weaving
Textile Industry
Women textile workers
male employees
labor movement
Bread and Roses Strike
children - Measurement:
- 12.75 x 9.75 (centimeters, width x height)
- Description:
- Two little girls in white dresses with dark sashes, holding flower baskets, leading a group of Ayer Mill Spinning Room workers in the parade celebrating the return of children of strikers who had been removed from Lawrence, MA, during the textile strike of 1912. A row of men is directly behind the girls wearing suits, ties, and hats. They're carrying a sign for the Ayer Mill Spinning Room and an abundance of flowers on a rack behind them. Bread and Roses Strike.
- Cite As:
- Henry F. Bedfore Collection of Textile Related Photographs. 6692 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University.
- Repository:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University
- Archival Collection:
- Henry F. Bedfore Collection of Textile Related Photographs
- Box:
- 1
- Folder:
- 1
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The copyright status and copyright owners of most of the images in the Mellon Teaching Sets Collection are unknown. Whenever possible, information on current rights owners is included with the image. Digitization took place at varied times from items held at The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives in service of a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Cornell is providing access to low-resolution, non-downloadable versions of the materials as a digital aggregate under an assertion of fair use for non-commercial research and educational use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. For more information about these volumes, please contact The Kheel Center at kheelref@cornell.edu. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item.