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The Old Mechanic's Bell tower [erected by shipwrights about 1800 at Goerck and Stanton streets near the East River, N.Y.C. The tolling of the bell marked the end of a ten-hour day, an act of protest against the employers' practice of compelling artisans to work from "dark to dark"]
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Erected by shipwrights about 1800 at Goerck and Stanton streets near the East River, N.Y.C. The tolling of the bell marked the end of a ten-hour day, an act of protest against the employers' practice of compelling artisans to work from "dark to dark".
Illus. in: Harper's New Monthly Magazine, July 1882, vol. 65, p. 231.
Reference copy may be in SSF - Bells and Bell-towers.
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Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Bells & Bell towers; Labor; Industry Shipbuilding.
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01/01/1882
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