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
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