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Posted on by Paul

Don’t be a scab

Streetcar-strike sympathizers, 1916. Photo by Bain News Service

I have a small framed print of this photo in a prominent spot in my house. When a friend noticed it for the first time, she asked me who the girls were. I couldn’t resist, and said “Oh, that’s my Aunt Mabel and my mom helping out at a streetcar strike in New York City.”

She started to say how wonderful that was, but I told her I was only kidding – what I said was just something I liked to imagine because my Aunt Mabel and my mom were both the right age to have looked like that in 1916.

Full-size retouched photo, much crisper than the one above
(Crisp: “Pleasantly clear and sharp”)

Original image at the Library of Congresss

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