Photographs relating to American socialism and labor from the Gallagher collection [graphic] ca. 1886-ca. 1940.

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Photographs relating to American socialism and labor from the Gallagher collection [graphic] ca. 1886-ca. 1940.

Collection includes scenes from the San Pedro raid of 1924 (victims of tarring and feathering, wreckage, wounded children); portraits of George Holmes, Mary Gallagher, Douglas Robson, Byron Kitto, Honore Joseph Jaxson (one is a tintype), William D. Haywood, and Lena Morrow Lewis; and a view of a typical coal miner's home. One of the Byron Kitto pictures shows him talking to strikers at Berwind, West Virginia.

22 photographic prints, 3 postcards : b&w ; various sizes.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8210381

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Gallagher, Mary, 1883-1965

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Industrial Workers of the World

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The IWW is a labor organization dedicated to uniting laborers around the world into a single large union. From the description of Collection 1916-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 778701431 Established in Chicago in 1905 by sponsors of socialism and the remnants of previous labor unions, including the Knights of Labor, Western Federation of Miners and the American Labor Union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), or "Wobblies", evolved into a radical industrial unio...

Haywood, Big Bill, 1869-1928

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Robson, Douglas, 1888-1948

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