Striking Policemen leave their stations

Photographs

September 9th, 1919

Boston Public Library, Print Department, Boston Herald-Traveler photo morgue

Original Record

Sepia colored photograph of 2 men standing in front fron tof an unidentifiable store front. All white, the one on the far left is wearing a suit with a bowler hat in an early twentieth century fashion. His right arm is behind his back and his left arm is out olding his coat. The man in the middle, slightly taller than the other two, is also wearing a suit with his jacket open and a hat. He is wearing a bow tie rather than just a tie and has his coat is draped over his right arm. His left arm is covered by the man on the right who is standing slightly in front him him. The last man is wearing a bowler hat and a dark raincoat with a high color. Draped over his left arm in a coat of a sturdier material and in his hands he is holding onto a pair of rain boots. The photograph is torn in the upper lefthand corner and at the bottom there are numbers and markings, handwritten.

Striking police officers left their posts with their belongings, hoping to earn better treatment from the city.

Striking policemen Thomas Murris, Dan Hartnett and Frank Pierce leaving station with belongings.

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