Library Company of Philadelphia
Happy Labor Day! This postcard documents a 1908 trolley strike in Chester, Pennsylvania. In response to falling revenue, the Chester Traction Company slashed pay rates. This decrease in pay prompted the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employees to shut down public trolleys from Philadelphia to Wilmington.
Trolley Strike postcard (Philadelphia: Keystone Post Card Company, ca. 1910). Photolithograph. From the Brightbill Postcard Collection.
![Labor Day symbolically marks the end of another Summer and the beginning of a new school year. It looks like this classroom is ready to inspire young minds, and also keep warm with that stove in the corner. #kindlingminds
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Labor Day symbolically marks the end of another Summer and the beginning of a new school year. It looks like this classroom is ready to inspire young minds, and also keep warm with that stove in the corner. #kindlingminds
![Today is Labor Day and Morris Monday! This glass negative from the Marriot C. Morris Collection captures the bittersweet experience of September on the beach and saying goodbye to summer.
House & flag pole from the beach looking s.w. [Sea Girt, NJ]....](https://64.media.tumblr.com/cae8ae52e3c96c612bca99e739cd4a4a/tumblr_nu091mQgHE1u23qdao1_250.jpg)
Today is Labor Day and Morris Monday! This glass negative from the Marriot C. Morris Collection captures the bittersweet experience of September on the beach and saying goodbye to summer.
House & flag pole from the beach looking s.w. [Sea Girt, NJ].
Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer.
1 photograph: glass plate negative; 4 x 5 in.