[Dubuque Labor Leader]

[Dubuque Labor Leader]

Photographer unknown

This image shows three men in the typesetting room of the Dubuque Labor Leader. Two men are dressed in white shirts, vests and ties. One of them is standing at a printing press in the rear of the room and the other is standing at a table where it appears that he has been setting type. A folded issue of the paper has been placed on the corner of the table. A rack containing type is visible next to the typesetting table and a printing plate is leaning against one of the table legs. A wooden mallet is lying on a lower shelf of the table. Next to the press is another table on which may be seen a large roll of paper. Completed printing jobs of placards and cards tied up in string are also on the table. The third man, who is wearing a suit and is holding a cigar in one hand, appears to be observing the other men. He may be Joseph M. Conley, the proprietor. The number "408" has been written on the emulsion side of the negative and is visible in the upper right corner of the picture. The number "2" is written in the upper left corner.

Newspapers
Newspaper industry
Printing presses
Typesetting
Dubuque (Iowa) -- Pictorial works
William J. Klauer Collection. City at Work Project
Gelatin silver prints
Itinerant photographers

The Center for Dubuque History, Loras College, 1450 Alta Vista Street, Dubuque, Iowa 52001

Digital image captured using a Microtek ScanMaker 8700 with transparent media adapter. TIFF file created from a gelatin silver print scanned in 16 - bit grey scale at 1200 ppi.

Contact The Center for Dubuque History at Loras College, 1450 Alta Vista Street, Dubuque, Iowa 52001 or call (563) 588-7100 © 2013 LORAS COLLEGE

William J. Klauer Collection

Still image

1912-05/06

KL 309-189

This record is part of the William J. Klauer Collection held by The Center for Dubuque History, Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa.

153 6th Street, Dubuque, Iowa

The Encyclopedia Dubuque (www.encyclopediadubuque.org) indicates that The Dubuque Labor Leader was a weekly publication that was known as the "Official Newspaper of Dubuque Organized Labor." The business was both a newspaper publisher and a commercial printer and was an early advocate of equal pay for equal work.

This image was displayed in the “City at Work” exhibit at the Dubuque Museum of Art, December 7, 2013 – March 24, 2014.

The original glass plate negative was lost. A gelatin silver print created in the 1970s remains.