“Greetings from the May Day Festival” Workers participated enthusiastically in the annual one-day strike on May 1 in Stuttgart, Germany, to honor international socialist solidarity, as this postcard suggests. Speeches, picnics, and parades were the order of the day, and workers celebrated their respectability and independent culture. Picture postcards like this one and the one in the section Jewish Emancipation and Modern Anti-Semitism developed with railroads, mass travel, and high-speed printing.

(Published by August Henning, Nürnberg, Germany, 1899/akg-images)