Associated Press [Picketers outside the Rhode Island Institute of Mental Health]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09845 Author/Creator: Associated Press Place Written: Cranston, Rhode Island Type: Photograph Date: 12 November 1974 Pagination: 1 wirephoto ; 21.5 x 25.8 cm. Order a Copy
One wirephoto taken by the Associated Press dated November 12, 1974. Image displays workers holding signs that read "On Strike." State police are seen in the background. Wire transfer information relays that 3,500 state employees were striking outside the Rhode Island Institute of Mental Health for better wages.
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