A Striking Way Home -- Roller skates provide mode of transportation for two young women through rush-hour traffic on New York's Fifth Avenue last night. The two girls, Lorraine Gamine, left, and Rosemarie Caminet, had just purchased the skates in a store as a means of beating the transportation shortage on the fourth day of the transit strike in the nation's largest city.

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Title:
A Striking Way Home -- Roller skates provide mode of transportation for two young women through rush-hour traffic on New York's Fifth Avenue last night. The two girls, Lorraine Gamine, left, and Rosemarie Caminet, had just purchased the skates in a store as a means of beating the transportation shortage on the fourth day of the transit strike in the nation's largest city.
Title (alt.):
Labor Strikes Transit Workers NYC '66
Description:
[Information from item housing] Labor: Unions: Mass.
Photographer:
Associated Press
Name on Item:
AP
Date:
[ca. January 1966]
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Photographic prints
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue
Subjects:
Labor unions
Places:
Massachusetts
Extent:
1 photograph : print ; sheet 256 x 210 mm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/r494zv47d
Terms of Use:
Rights status not evaluated.
All rights reserved.
Language:
English
Notes:
Title(s) from item.
Preferred Citation:
Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue, Boston Public Library
Notes (acquisition):
Gift; Boston University, College of Communication, 1977/1978.
Notes (date):
Date from item.
Identifier:
22_10_001388_0025
Barcode:
39999088103591