The Labour-Fight at the Carnegie Steelworks, Homestead, Pennsylvania, from 'The Graphic', 30th July 1892

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The Labour-Fight at the Carnegie Steelworks, Homestead, Pennsylvania, from 'The Graphic', 30th July 1892

English School, (19th century). Medium: lithograph. Date: 1892. The repulse (and capture) of the Pinkerton men by the strikers at the landing stage; Pinkerton National Detective Agency founded in 1850; force of 300 detectives from New York were called in to protect the mill during the Homestead Strike; Provenance: Private Collection / Peter Newark American Pictures.