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Item Title
Eighteen-year-old Marianna Costa (second from left) and other textile workers march, in Washington, D.C., in support of the adoption of federal standards for the silk industry.
Author/Creator
Photographer: Taylor, David Alan, 1951-
Created/Published
September 1994
Notes
Forms part of a group of images which are copies of black-and-white photos in the collection of Marianna Costa, a retired official in Paterson's dyers union local who lives in Haledon, NJ.
The march occurred in 1933 when the textile workers' strike was in progress in Paterson.
Subjects
Italian Americans
Demonstrations
Labor leaders
Silk industry
Textile industry
Historic photos
Ethnography
Photographs
United States--New Jersey--Haledon
Object Type
Related Names
Depicted: Costa, Marianna
Medium
35 mm black-and-white film negative
Language
English
Call Number
AFC 1995/028: WIP-DT-B002-09A
Reproduction Number
AFC 1995/028: WIP-DT-B002-09A
Part of
Working in Paterson Folklife Project
Repository
Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
afcwip dtb00209
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afcwip.dtb00209