God Bless You Fannie Sellins - 8x10" Print

Photograph by Don Henderson.

Digital photograph of Fannie Sellins' grave in New Kensington, 8x10" glossy.

On the morning of August 25th 2012,  I jumped into my little red Jeep and went out to shoot some fog photos. My first location was down by  the New Kensington Bridge. After snapping a few shots of the former New Ken Steel Company buildings, I decided to go up river to shoot the Tarentum Bridge, so I headed up Freeport Road, while on my way, I stopped to take some photos at Union Cemetery that was socked in with fog. I took several dozen photos in the cemetery, especially around this one monument that I later found out after downloading the photos was the grave of Fannie Sellins. From there I went up to the bluff above the Tarentum Bridge and then down into East Tarentum, Brackenridge, Natrona and Natrona Heights.

Fannie Sellins was a labor organizer for the United Mine Workers, who was brutally murdered on August 26th 1919 while picketing with striking mine workers near a coal mine in Natrona Heights by sheriff's deputies and coal & Iron police thugs. 

I was shocked when I downloaded the photos I had taken that day, I realized that not only had I photographed Fannie Sellins' grave in Union Cemetery, but I photographed near were she lived in New Kensington and near were she was murdered.  

Printed from an Epson Expression XP-15000 printer using Claria Hi-Definition Ink on a 8.5x11" Epson glossy digital photo paper.

Mailed in flat, rigid envelopes to prevent damage or curling, and are ready to frame.

* Watermark will not appear on physical print.