A gigantic map of all the cool plaques in the world. A project of 99% Invisible.

Washington Bridge

STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS   WASHINGTON BRIDGES   THIS MEMORIAL IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES DURING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE PREVIOUS WASHINGTON...

STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS WASHINGTON BRIDGES   THIS MEMORIAL IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES DURING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE PREVIOUS...

  • rhode island
  • providence
  • george washington
  • bridge
  • labor
  • 1928
  • 1929
  • 1968

James Harnby / Franz Haber

James Harnby   Fell from a brewery truck   Died September 12, 1913   Franz Haber   Crushed behind wheel   in factory   Died November 11, 1914Submitted by @lampbane

James Harnby   Fell from a brewery truck   Died September 12, 1913   Franz Haber   Crushed behind wheel   in factory   Died November 11, 1914Submitted by @lampbane

  • canada
  • ontario
  • toronto
  • monument
  • labor
  • james harnby
  • franz haber
  • 1913
  • 1914

Thomas Cosgrove / Edmund Tong

Thomas Cosgrove   Jumped from moving train that was about to collide Died March 23, 1951   Edmund Tong   Bullet wound in chest   Died March 6, 1952Submitted by @lampbane

Thomas Cosgrove   Jumped from moving train that was about to collide Died March 23, 1951   Edmund Tong   Bullet wound in chest   Died March 6, 1952Submitted by @lampbane

  • canada
  • ontario
  • toronto
  • monument
  • labor
  • thomas cosgrove
  • edmund tong
  • 1951
  • 1952

WSIB Simcoe Park Workers Monument

WSIB SIMCOE PARK WORKERS MONUMENT   100 WORKERS   BY: JOHN SCOTT & STEWART H. POLLOCK   -100 WORKERS" IS A MONUMENT COMMEMORATING THE WORKERS OF ONTARIO WHO DIED IN THE WORKPLACE.   A SELECTION OF...

WSIB SIMCOE PARK WORKERS MONUMENT   100 WORKERS   BY: JOHN SCOTT & STEWART H. POLLOCK   -100 WORKERS" IS A MONUMENT COMMEMORATING THE WORKERS OF ONTARIO WHO DIED IN THE WORKPLACE.   A SELECTION OF...

  • canada
  • ontario
  • toronto
  • monument
  • labor
  • john scott
  • stewart pollock
  • simcoe park

Our Martyred Men -- The 1910 Los Angeles Times Bombing

The plaque and monument, in Hollywood Forever cemetery, commemorate the October 1, 1910, bombing of the Los Angeles Times building by militant unionists who targeted the paper and its owner...

The plaque and monument, in Hollywood Forever cemetery, commemorate the October 1, 1910, bombing of the Los Angeles Times building by militant unionists who targeted the paper and its...

  • los angeles
  • los angeles times
  • labor
  • unions
  • labor history

Mary "Mother" Jones monument and grave

We happened across this piece of U.S. labor history along Interstate 55, about 50 miles northeast of St. Louis. That doesn't compute, until you remember that much of Illinois was (and some still...

We happened across this piece of U.S. labor history along Interstate 55, about 50 miles northeast of St. Louis. That doesn't compute, until you remember that much of Illinois was (and some still...

  • illinois
  • coal
  • unions
  • labor
  • mother jones

1935 Redwood Lumber Strike

Plaque text: 1935 REDWOOD LUMBER STRIKE Striking sawmill workers gathered in a mass picket at a redwood mill due west of Fort Humboldt on June 21, 1935, trying to convince local redwood mill...

Plaque text: 1935 REDWOOD LUMBER STRIKE Striking sawmill workers gathered in a mass picket at a redwood mill due west of Fort Humboldt on June 21, 1935, trying to convince local redwood mill...

  • redwood
  • strike
  • humboldt
  • eureka
  • lumber mill
  • labor
  • afl-cio