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IMAGO International History, Bain News Service Archive, USA, New York, Labour unions and marches 1905-1925

Apr 3, 2026

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  • Historical - July 28, 2022 July 28, 2022, New York City, New York, USA: Striking Garment Workers, Cloak Makers Union, Union Square, New York City, New York, USA, Bain News Service, 1916 Copyright: xJTxVintagex
  • Historical - July 28, 2022 July 28, 2022, New York City, New York, USA: Striking Garment Workers, Cloak Makers Union, Union Square, New York City, New York, USA, Bain News Service, 1916 Copyright: xJTxVintagex
  • Historical - May 31, 2022 May 31, 2022, New York City, New York, USA: Florence Jaffrey Daisy Harriman, President of Woman s National Wilson and Marshall Organization, attending Democratic Rally, Union Square, New York City, New York, USA, Bain News Service, August 20, 1912 Copyright: xJTxVintagex
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED Sam l i.e., Samuel Gompers, 1915. Shows labor union leader Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) testifying at the 1915 hearings of the federal Commission on Industrial Relations at New York City Hall, New York City. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED Sympathy Labor Parade -- 1916 , 1916. Shows crowd at a labor sympathy parade in New York City on Dec. 2, 1916. People hold signs reading: We demand the liberty of all the labor prisoners, We demand justice for the Minnesota prisoners and Our brothers in Minnesota prison must be freed. Another sign is in Yiddish. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED Adm. Usher & Mayor Mitchel, 1917. Shows New York Mayor John Purroy Mitchel (1879-1918) turning over the U.S.S. Recruit to Admiral Usher on May 30, 1917. The Recruit was a fake battleship built in Union Square, New York City by the Navy to recruit seamen and sell Liberty Bonds during World War I. The photograph was taken on Memorial Day, May 30, 1917, the day of the launch of the ship. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED Wash day on U.S.S. Recruit, between c1915 and c1920. Shows sailors hanging laundry on the U.S.S. Recruit, a fake battleship built in Union Square, New York City by the Navy to recruit seamen and sell Liberty Bonds. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED W.H. Taft, 1916. Shows former president William Howard Taft campaigning for Republican candidate Charles Evans Hughes on Nov. 4, 1916 in Union Square, New York City. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED Union Square, 1916. Shows Union Square, New York City. Labor celebration in Union Square, attended by 3,000 in the first organized labor participation in New York s municipal 4th of July festivities. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED Sympathy Labor Parade, 1916. Shows a crowd at a labor sympathy parade in New York City on Dec. 2, 1916 with a banner reading: Agitation & Defence Committee for Carlo Tresca and the victims of the capitalist reaction in America. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED Streetcar railway strike, 1916 - Stopping cars, between c1915 and c1920. Shows crowd and street car in front of the Yorkville Casino, 210 E. 86th St., New York City. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED On U.S.S. Recruit, 1917. Shows sailors dancing on the U.S.S. Recruit, a fake battleship built in Union Square, New York City by the Navy to recruit seamen and sell Liberty Bonds. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED Junior Naval Scouts, 1917. Shows members of the Junior Naval Scouts aboard the U.S.S. Recruit, a fake battleship built in Union Square, New York City by the Navy to recruit seamen and sell Liberty Bonds during World War I. The photograph was taken on Memorial Day, May 30, 1917, the day of the launch of the ship. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED J.P. Holland at car strike, 1916. Shows W.B. Fitzgerald, James P. Holland, Hugh Frayne and others speaking at Union Square, New York City during a car strike. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED I.W.W. Meeting, Park Row, between c1910 and c1915. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED Sickles Funeral, 1914. Shows the funeral of Union general and politician Daniel Edgar Sickles (1819-1914) which took place in New York City on May 8, 1914. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED J.J. Ettor speaking to striking barbers, Union Square, N.Y., 1913. Shows labor leader Joseph James Ettor (1886-1948) speaking during the Brooklyn barbers strike of 1913, Union Square, New York City. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED Socialist and labor union demonstration, Union Square, New York City, 1914. Shows a Socialist and labor union demonstration celebrating International Labor Day (May Day) in Union Square, New York City, May 1, 1914. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED Chief Bald Eagle on U.S.S. Recruit, 1917. Shows Native Americans including Chief Bald Eagle, at an event near the USS Recruit, a wooden mockup of a battleship built in Union Square, New York City by the Navy to recruit seamen and sell Liberty Bonds during World War I. Also in the photograph is Lt. Wells Hawks (1870-1941), a member of the Navy s public relations team Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • Florence Jaffray Daisy Harriman overseeing Democratic Rally, Union Square, New York City, New York, USA, Bain News Service, August 1912 Copyright: xCircaxImagesx ghi-circa02812
  • George Grantham Bain, Driving a Stutz Passenger Car near Union Square, New York City, New York, USA, Bain News Service, July 4, 1914 Copyright: xCircaxImagesx ghi-circa02488
  • Female socialists at rally, Union Square, New York City, New York, USA, Bain News Service, May 1, 1908 Copyright: xCircaxImagesx ghi-circa01997
  • Anarchist Meeting, Union Square, New York City, New York, USA, Bain News Service, May 1, 1914 Copyright: xCircaxImagesx ghi-circa01774
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED Geoffrey O Hara, between c1915 and c1920. Shows Geoffrey O Hara (1882-1967) who was a Canadian American composer, singer and educator on the U.S.S. Recruit, a fake battleship built in Union Square, New York City by the Navy to recruit seamen and sell Liberty Bonds. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED Garment workers, Webster Hall, between c1915 and c1920. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED In Union Sq., between c1910 and c1915. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED In Union Sq., between c1910 and c1915. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED May Day 13, strikers in Union Square, 1913. Shows crowd gathered in Union Square, New York City during the May Day parade, May 1, 1913. Some hold signs in Yiddish, Italian and English. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED G.T. Kirby & wife, Mrs. L.R. Guggenheim, Com r Stover, between c1910 and c1915. Shows Gustavus Town Kirby (far left), President of the Amateur Athletic Union and president of the American Olympic Committee for the 1912 Stockholm Olympics and Charles Bunstein Stover (1861-1929), Parks Commissioner for New York City. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED Socialists in Union Square, N.Y.C. large crowd Photo, 1 May 1912 - Bain Coll., 1912. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED I.W.W. Meeting, Union Sq., 1914. Shows crowd at IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) rally in Union Square, New York City on April 11, 1914. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED I.W.W. Meeting, Union Sq., 1914. Shows crowd at IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) rally in Union Square, New York City on April 11, 1914. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED I.W.W. Meeting -- Union Sq., 1914. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED Anarchists, Union Sq., 1914. Shows men gathered in Union Square, New York City. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED Milo Woolman, Turner, Plunkett, Carron, Sullivan, between c1910 and c1915. Shows members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), who were involved in the Lexington Avenue bombing of July 4, 1914, New York City. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED Sickles funeral, 1914. Shows the funeral of Union general and politician Daniel Edgar Sickles (1819-1914) which took place in New York City on May 8, 1914. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED Plunkett (I.W.W.), between c1910 and c1915. Shows Plunkett a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, who was involved in the Lexington Avenue bombing of July 4, 1914, New York City. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED Linc. Steffens, 1914. Shows American journalist, lecturer and political philosopher Lincoln Steffens (1866-1936), in Union Square, New York City. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED Linc. Steffens, 1914. Shows Lincoln Steffens (1866-1936), an American journalist, lecturer, and political philosopher speaking in Union Square, New York City. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED I.W.W. Hat Card, 1914. Shows man wearing hat with card Bread or revolution at IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) rally in Union Square, New York City on April 11, 1914. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED I.W.W. Committee--Sullivan, Caron, Plunkett, Turner, Milo Woolman, between c1910 and c1915. Shows members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), who were involved in the Lexington Avenue bombing of July 4, 1914, New York City. Group includes Arthur Caron and Charles Plunkett. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED Caron, between c1910 and 1914. Shows French Canadian anarchist Arthur Caron, a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), who was killed in the Lexington Avenue bombing of July 4, 1914 in New York City. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED Becky Edelson i.e., Edelsohn under arrest -- Tarrytown, 1914. Shows Rebecca Edelsohn (c. 1889 or 1892-1973) after her arrest for attempting to hold an open air mass meeting in Fountain Square, Tarrytown, New York on May 30, without a permit. Edelsohn and fellow I.W.W. members were protesting labor violence in Ludlow, Colorado and went to Tarrytown to denounce John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED Becky Edelson i.e., Edelsohn taken from jail, 1914. Shows Rebecca Edelsohn (c. 1889 or 1892-1973) after her arrest for attempting to hold an open air mass meeting in Fountain Square, Tarrytown, New York on May 30, without a permit. Edelsohn and fellow I.W.W. members were protesting labor violence in Ludlow, Colorado and went to Tarrytown to denounce John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED Union Sq., N.Y., between c1910 and c1915. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED At Gaynor notification 9 3 13, 1913. Shows the notification ceremony that took place on September 3, 1913 on the steps of City Hall, New York City, where Mayor William J. Gaynor was nominated for re-election. William Jay Gaynor had served a term as reform mayor of New York. Because the incorruptible Gaynor would not cooperate with the Tammany machine, Tammany refused to nominate him for a second term. So Gaynor was renominated by an independent group, and accepted their nomination. Nathan Hale statue on right. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED Strikers, Union Square, May Day, 13, 1913. Shows crowd gathered in Union Square, New York City during the May Day parade, May 1, 1913. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED N.Y. May Day parade - Strikers children from Paterson, 1913. Shows children of the strikers of the Paterson Silk Strike arriving in Union Square, New York City during the May Day parade, May 1, 1913. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED Daisy Harriman addresses a Democratic rally in Union Square, New York City, 1912. Shows a banner for the Woman s National Wilson and Marshall Organization. The New York Times states that Mrs. Jaffray Borden (Daisy) Harriman was the founder and chairman. They were active at least through the 1912 election. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED May Day Parade - Union Sq., 1913, 1913. Shows crowd gathered in Union Square, New York City during the May Day parade, May 1, 1913. Copyright:xHeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:HeritagexArt HeritagexImagesxBainxNewsxServicex IMAGO
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