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Category Archives: Photography
Anarchy on Wall Street
On 16 September 1920, a wagonload containing 45 kilos of explosives and 230 kilos of lead weights placed outside the JP Morgan bank at 23 Wall Street in New York was detonated, killing 38 people and injuring many more. The … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 wall street, 1920, anarchists, Architecture, bombing, CCA, detroit, galleanists, gwen webber, ilse bing, irving trust company building, irving underhill, james griffioen, jp morgan, luigi galleani, maria morris hombourg, paul strand, photography, wall street, walter rosenblum
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Born To Work
More images from Born to Work by Nick Hedges. What is so astonishing about these pictures is the way they are so vivid even if the world they inhabit is gone for ever. Nick manages to simultaneously capture the human … Continue reading
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Photographer Nick Hedges at Bilston in 1976
Tapping the Furnace Steelworks, Bilston. 1976
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