Biography
Belle Yount was photographed in a Kalamazoo jail cell during the 1912 corset workers’ strike.
The ILGWU history’s reproduced photograph expressly identifies Belle Yount as the standing woman in a Kalamazoo cell, with Josephine Casey seated beside her. The surrounding account concerns the 1912 corset workers’ strike. The photograph establishes Yount’s confinement but supplies no individual admission or discharge dates or complete duration; Casey’s reported time in jail is not assigned to Yount. The portrait crop shows Yount alone, as identified by the printed caption.
