Summary

Black and white negative depicting a group of manufacturing workers and their families carrying placards as part of a protest meeting outside a Patons Brakes, motor car component factory, in Bentleigh East, on 14 March 1973. The protest is over wage levels. This image is one of approximately 85,000 negatives from the Laurie Richards Collection taken by the Melbourne based Laurie Richards Studio between the 1950s -1970s.

Laurie Richards was a professional photographer who began his career as a photo-journalist, in 1953, he opened his own business and set up a photographic studio at his home in Alphington. At its peak, in the late 1960s, the Laurie Richards Studio was one of Melbourne's pre-eminent commercial photographic studios, employing twelve photographers.

Description of Content

Group of manufacturing workers and their families carrying placards as part of a protest meeting outside a factory.

Physical Description

Black and white negative.

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