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A Talent for Detail: The Photographs of Miss Frances Benjamin Johnston 1889 -- 1910

1974Covers show light wear only. Book is otherwise in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, , text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Black and white illustrations, often full page. 182 pages. "Frances Benjamin Johnston was a prominent studio photographer and photojournalist at the turn of the twentieth century. She presented three bodies of work at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900: a collection of photographs by American women, a series of photographs of students in the Washington, D.C., school system, and a series of photographs of students from the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute. These exhibits all promoted the nationalistic agenda of progress at the Paris Exposition, illustrating American advancement in art, education, and society." ; "Johnston was a significant-and arresting-figure in early twentieth-century photography.Johnston produced a good deal of the usual society portraiture of the time-including a nude photograph of a debutante that prompted the girl's outraged father to file a lawsuit-but she was also an important photodocumentarian. Students of African American history can reexamine life at Hampton Institute (now Hampton University) or Tuskegee using hundreds of photographs made by Johnston at the turn of the last century.through Johnston's work we can see Admiral Dewey on the deck of the USS Olympia, the Roosevelt children playing with their pet pony at the White House, and the gardens of Edith Wharton's famous villa near Paris. Johnston's major project on early vernacular architecture of the American South preserves scores of buildings that no longer exist except on her film." ; photos of the famous include Thordore ROosevelt, Susan B Anthony, Mark Twain, William McKinley, Joel Chandler Harris, Admiral Dewey, Booker T. Washington, Jacob Riis, Alexander Graham Bell, Jane E Clark, Andrew Carnegie, George Washington Carver, John Phillip Sousa, Helen Hay, John Milton Hay, General LEonard Ward, Julia Marlowe, Richard Hovey, Margaret James, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, Albert Beveridge, Edith Wharton, DIfford Pinchot, Jane Cowl, and Ryan Tillman

Bookshop Pistil Books Online · États-Unis19,94 €

Black Coal MinersBiblio.com

African American Coal Miners and Industrial Labor from the Progressive Era to the Postwar Years Photo Archive

1900réf. 235961900. African American coal mining photo archive depicting Black industrial labor from the turn of the century through the postwar era documenting the changing conditions of mine work while revealing the continuity of Black employment in one of America's most dangerous industries. Spanning approximately fifty years from an early albumen photograph made around the turn of the century to silver gelatin photographs of the 1940s and 1950s the group records successive generations of miners whose labor fueled the nation's railroads steel production and wartime industries. By 1900 more than 180000 African Americans worked in mining and related extractive industries particularly across Appalachia and the industrial Midwest where operators frequently recruited Black labor during strikes while maintaining segregated workforces and company towns. Photo archive of 10 photographs including one large albumen print and nine silver gelatin photographs ranging from approximately 3 x 5 to 9 x 14 inches United States circa 1900s through the 1950s. The photographs show Black miners posed beside coal cars loaded with freshly mined coal; mixed Black and white work crews standing before steam powered mining equipment; African American workers operating within large industrial preparation plants beneath towering conveyors and ore bins; foundry and furnace interiors where molten metal is poured from massive ladles; miners gathered for formal group portraits outside industrial buildings; and workers posing beside hoists rail equipment and mechanical machinery. One of the largest photographs records a substantial interracial work crew surrounding a coal car marked with capacity information while another documents a line of African American workers walking through a commercial district following their shift preserving the contrast between industrial labor and urban life. Later photographs depict Black workers operating heavy electrical or mechanical equipment and standing inside modernized industrial facilities illustrating the technological transformation of mining and processing across the first half of the twentieth century. Coal mining became one of the largest employers of African American industrial labor following Reconstruction as southern and Appalachian operators recruited Black workers into mines expanding to meet the demands of railroads steel mills and urban growth. During both World Wars Black miners became indispensable to national coal production even while remaining concentrated in the most dangerous occupations and frequently excluded from skilled positions promotion and union representation until the growing influence of the United Mine Workers and the broader civil rights movement began to erode formal segregation after the Second World War. The chronological span of this archive distinguishes it from single period mining groups by tracing the persistence of Black industrial labor from the era of mule drawn coal cars and steam powered extraction to mechanized postwar production. Light surface wear scattered creasing and occasional edge chipping; the large albumen print shows moderate age toning. Overall in very good condition. A concentrated visual record of African American labor sustaining the American coal industry across five decades of industrial and social change. unknown

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis1 250,00 $US≈ 1 114,58 €

[Miners' Protective Association]Biblio.com

APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP IN THE MINERS' PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION DATED AT CRIPPLE CREEK COLORADO JUNE 30 1915 COMPLETED BY ERNEST GEORGE AHL AGE 19

1915réf. 36550Colorado 1915. 5-1/2" x 8-3/4". Printed form on pink paper completed in ink manuscript two holes punched at top. Very Good. Ernest George Ahl age 19 born in Sweden and residing at 214 No. 4 St. Victor lists his occupation as trammer and claims eleven months' experience at Stratton's Independence Mine. He recites that he has never been a member of the Western Federation of Miners or a member of any labor organization. He states that he is "in sympathy with the objects and purposes of the Miners' Protective Association. . . and will abide by and observe the Constitution and By-Laws as may be prescribed by its Executive Committee." He signs the document. On the verso are additional notes regarding his application. The Stratton Independence Mine & Mill was located in the Cripple Creek Mining District in Victor Colorado on the south slope of Battle Mountain. Named after Winfield Scott Stratton who discovered the mine on July 4 1891 it was site of the first major strike in the Cripple Creek/Victor area. The disputes led to the formation of the Western Federation of Miners in 1893. Tensions between management and workers escalated into the Colorado Labor Wars of 1903. The Miners' Protective Association formed in Virginia City in May 1863 opposed pending wage cuts and created a benefit fund for sick and injured miners and their families. By 1912 it had established an office in Cripple Creek which was made up of both employers and employees. Mining American Volume 65 1912 p.197. Ernest George Ahl was born in Malmere Shana Sweden on June 28 1896 and died in San Diego California on June 21 1923. Not much is known about him; Swedish emigration records show him leaving for New York on June 11 1914. His Declaration of Naturalization occurred March 1917 at San Diego California; he registered for the World War I draft on June 8 1917 and listed his employer at the time as Portland Gold Mining Company; he is listed in the Roster of Men and Women Who Served in The World War From Colorado 1917-1918 Teller County as a private in the Infantry. unknown