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May 8 – Adolph Zukor founds Famous Players Film Company, now Paramount Pictures. May 11 – Alaska is constituted as a territory of the U.S. May 18 – The Detroit Tigers go on strike to protest the suspension of Ty Cobb.
Postcard of American Woolen Co., Washington Mills, Lawrence, Mass. Founded in 1845, Lawrence was a flourishing but deeply-troubled textile city. By 1900, mechanization and the deskilling of labor in the textile industry enabled factory owners to eliminate skilled workers and to employ large numbers of unskilled immigrant workers, mostly women.
The 1912–1913 Little Falls textile strike was a labor strike involving workers at two textile mills in Little Falls, New York, United States.The strike began on October 9, 1912, as a spontaneous walkout of primarily immigrant mill workers at the Phoenix Knitting Mill following a reduction in pay, followed the next week by workers at the Gilbert Knitting Mill for the same reason.
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The practice of women dressing as men was generally viewed more positively as compared to men dressing as women. Altenburger states that female-to-male cross-dressing entailed a movement forward in terms of social status, power, and freedom [2] whereas men who cross-dressed were ridiculed or otherwise viewed negatively. [4]
Knickerbockers have been popular in other sporting endeavors, particularly golf, rock climbing, cross-country skiing, fencing and bicycling. In cycling, they were standard attire for nearly 100 years, with the majority of archival photos of cyclists in the era before World War I showing men wearing knickerbockers tucked into long socks.
April 14, 1912, just a mere 104 years ago today! "Titanic" is certainly one of those movies you can't help but love. Check out more amazing pics from "Titanic" below!
His shirt has a tall, stuff collar. Poland, 1912; Advertisement for men's sack suits, United States, 1912; Suit made of worsted Cheviot, 1912; Men's shoe fashion – summer, 1913; Fashion plate of 1914 show's man's overcoat worn with a Homburg hat and gaiters or spats. Note ankle-length creased or pressed trousers with cuffs.