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Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks V7:4681/4706-4707
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Philadelphia Record
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bethlehem Steel Corporation.
- Strikes.
- Law enforcement--Pennsylvania.
- Sabotage--Pennsylvania--Johnstown.
- Wands & injuries--Pennsylvania.
- Tear gas.
- Vigilance committees--Pennsylvania--Johnstown.
- Fighting--Pennsylvania.
- Violence--Pennsylvania.
- Steel industry.
- Local Subjects:
- Strikes.
- Law enforcement--Pennsylvania.
- Sabotage--Pennsylvania--Johnstown.
- Wands & injuries--Pennsylvania.
- Tear gas.
- Vigilance committees--Pennsylvania--Johnstown.
- Fighting--Pennsylvania.
- Violence--Pennsylvania.
- Steel industry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gift of the Philadelphia Record
- Physical Description:
- 97 photoprints : silver gelatin
- Place of Publication:
- 1937-1941
- Summary:
- Documents steel industry workers on strike at Bethlehem Steel Corporation plants in Buffalo, N.Y., Johnstown, Pa., and Bethlehem, Pa. Shows picketing and law enforcement activities in all locations. Johnstown images highlight the sabotage of a water main for the plant, the declaration of martial law, vigilante re-enforcements, fighting, wounded, and arrests. Behtlehem images illustrate violence on the picket line with views of wounded people, and damaged automobiles. Documents police involvement, fighting, the use of tear gas, and arrests.
- These subject entries for the Philadelphia Record newspaper's photo morgue are primarily for Places (buildings, parks, streets, etc.), Things (Bicycles, Bison, Blind Persons [just sampling the B's]), Events (Democratic National Convention 1936, Flourtown Fair, Harvest Week) and Social Constructs (Home Economics, City Planning, Eating & Drinking, etc.). Each of these subjects became a MARC record which included a call number. In the case of these records, the call numbers are the actual folder numbers for the materials referenced. Therefore, these subject headings are really also an index for this section of the Philadelphia Record newspaper's photograph morgue. [The name section of the Philadelphia Record photo morgue represents individuals, A-Z, and
- Notes:
- Part of the Philadelphia Record Photograph Collection; for general information, see collection record.
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