i follow the @DorotheaLange account that posts her work now collected at the Library Of Congress #USLOC; so i decided to do a little #MayDay search to see what history of the United State is hiding in plain site.
i have found some real gems.
"30 hours work for 40 hours pay!"
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017646501/
there is a whole collection titled: "Anarchist and socialist demonstrations in New York" from 1908-1917.
« Photographs show activities of anarchists, socialists, organized labor, and the unemployed, primarily in New York City... Women activists are depicted in many of the photographs.»
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002696070/
sure enough: here is Emma Goldman, with her signature hat and eyeglasses, peering at the camera from a streetcar
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/96507741/
any Hebrew/Yiddish scholars? this one is rather timely and from a mini-collection, within the same #anarchism batch, titled: "Protest against child labor in a #labor parade"
two children look at the camera from within a crowd. they're both holding American flags and wearing sashes; one in Hebrew, the other in English. the one in English says: ABOLISH CHILD SLAVERY
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/97519062/
a real #LaborDay march in #NYC on #MayDay of 1909
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014683315/
i think this is somewhere in the West Village area, close to the Meat Packing District. am going by that rounded corner, the cobblestones and trolley tracks. you could still see those tracks, back in the 1990s, if you walked just a block west from HB Studios.
i love the title for this one: SOCIALISTS, UNION SQUARE
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014690383/
it's just a sea of heads peeking out of bowler, fedoras and straw hats
a smart #anarchist shout out to Peter Kropotkin's "The Conquest Of #Bread": "Loaf of bread float carried in Socialist Parade, New York".
UPDATE¹
i confused Upton Sinclair with Sinclair Lewis... le siiiigh.
the man whose books, THE JUNGLE & FLIVVER KING, should become part of the canon of American #literature taught in public schools everywhere, UPTON SINCLAIR.
"Author Upton Sinclair, in white suit with black arm band, picketing Rockefeller Building"
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/97519133/
UPDATE²
Sinclair Lewis' IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE + Upton Sinclair's THE FLIVVER KING >>> Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged
LAST BUT NOT LEAST: took me a little longer to post this because i hadn't seen anything like it. it's a 1865 cartoon that needs a good #Alt4Me:
titled, "The first of May 1865 or gen[era]l moving day in Richmond, Va." it's supposed to show "Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and Stonewall Jackson vacating premises in Richmond as African Americans and poor whites look on"; but look at that division of classes in the Confederacy leadership & the working classes.
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2011645385/
TIL landlords across the country, but particularly in #NYC would post their rent hikes on May Day.
MAY DAY had a lot of meanings but back in the early 1900s, it was definitely a day to protest #MovingDay unfair #housing #rent increases against the working poor.
"Moving Day: When Every NYC Lease Expired on May 1st - Untapped New York"
https://untappedcities.com/2024/03/07/moving-day-nyc/
and there you have it. we all learned something new today about the real #LaborDay, #MayDay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb-6A4IGRrw
'Moving Day' by Charlie Poole & accompanists, recorded circa 1930
"It's Moving Day, Moving Day,
Rip the carpet up off the floor,
Get on yer overcoat, get out the door.
Because it's Moving Day, Moving Day,
Pack up yer clothes and get away,
If you can't pay the rent, gotta live out in a tent,
Because it's Moo-oo-oo-ovin' Day."
@blogdiva sorry to be that guy, but don't you mean Sinclair Lewis? He wrote "It Can't Happen Here."
Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle (on the harsh conditions and exploitation of immigrants) as well as books with Lanny Budd (Dragon's Teeth is the one Sinclair won a Pulitzer for)
That's not Hebrew but Yiddish!
@blogdiva According to Wikipedia, it’s “Down With Child Slavery” ([ni]der mit [kin]der shklafer[ey])
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish-American_working_class#1800s_and_1900s
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