Gorrie Guarded by Police on way home (LOC)

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    Gorrie Guarded by Police on way home

    [between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

    1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

    Notes:
     Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
    Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

    Format: Glass negatives.

    Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

    Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

    General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

    Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.09187

    Call Number: LC-B2- 2195-8

    Comments and faves

    1. artolog (59 months ago | reply)

      probably the strikebreaker in this story:
      query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B01E 4D81439E333A...

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      sonolisto added this photo to their favorites. (59 months ago)

    3. conner395 (58 months ago | reply)

      Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Police History, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

    4. conner395 (58 months ago | reply)

      Thanks for adding this to the Police History Group

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      Seen in Police History (?)

    5. McBomb (58 months ago | reply)

      STRIKE MOB PELTS WORKMAN AND POLICE; 3,000 Join in Attacking a Factory Employe Who Wouldn't Quit and His Escort.
      May 10, 1911, Wednesday
      A mob of 3,000 persons, among them many women, hooted and jeered early yesterday evening as eight mounted policemen, eight men on foot, and two bicycle policemen escorted Harry Gorrie to his home at 511 Fifty-third Street, Brooklyn, from the E.W. Bliss Projectile Works, at Fifty-third Street and First Avenue.
      -NY Times archives

      you can use the link posted above to get to the full story.

    6. conner395 (58 months ago | reply)

      That was really sweet of them - to give out the man's full address.

    7. BobMeade (56 months ago | reply)

      As they say, a scab is a scab.

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      strattonbrock, edvia6, WillSzymborska, michaelcarlebach, and 5 other people added this photo to their favorites.

    9. This photo was invited and added to the Circa group.

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      ardibkb added this photo to his favorites. (12 months ago)

    11. Monica's Dad (8 months ago | reply)

      That fella had guts to stand alone against 300 angry co-workers and a violent mob.

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