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Postcard of coal pickers in Pennsylvania, n.d.

Coal mining became so central to American life that it found its way onto a postcard. This postcard shows pickers getting coal from a waste dump in Pennsylvania. This item is part of the background to the Forging Bonds of Sympathy: The…

Portrait of Terence V. Powderly in newspaper illustration, n.d.

This portrait of Powderly is a clipping from the newspaper Missouri World, a Chillicothe, Missouri weekly publication. It was signed by Powderly. This item is part of the background to the Forging Bonds of Sympathy: The Catholic Church…