Garment workers in sweatshops and on strike
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Brief Description: Etching of tailor and child working in their flat on the Lower East Side; 'Living room is the workshop' - Jacob Riis; sketches of man, woman with infant and children working in a sweatshop; crowded tailoring shop with refuse on floors and children in the image; boss raises a fist to young woman at sewing machine; a young woman on a platform addresses women about the strike; two drawings with Yiddish captions, 1911 photo of crowded sweatshop; photo showing the backs of several workers in very crowded conditions; sketch by Jacob Epstein of tired worker carrying pack of work; sketch: women work around table, man oversees; sketch: man at iron to left, seamstresses and others in crowded image; sketch: 'A group of tailors'; corner of a busy Waverly Place shop; interior of sweatshop with elderly bearded man to left and men and women working crowded together to the rear.
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Record Series Number: RG 120 US/RG 120 US F26
Subject Index
Epstein, Jacob
Lower East Side
New York
Occupations
Riis, Jacob
Strikes
Sweatshops
Tailoring
USPIX
Genres/Forms of Material
Clippings
Drawings - Sketches
Negatives
Photographs
Photographs - Snapshots
Acquisition Notes: New York Public Library
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