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Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Archbishop of Quebec, n.d.
Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Archbishop of Quebec, opposed the spread of the Knights of Labor into Canada.
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Samuel Gompers, n.d.
Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) was the first president of the American Federation of Labor from 1896-1894, a union that would grow in numbers and power as the Knights of Labor declined. This portrait is signed by Gompers.
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Knights of Labor march in a parade, July 4, 1887
Colorado Knights of Labor march in a July 4, 1887 parade held in the town of Leadeville.
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Constitution of KoL Local Assembly No. 1446, 1880
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The Founders of the Knights of Labor, 1886
This 1886 engraved photograph shows several of the founders of the Knights of Labor. From left: William Cook, James S. Wright, R.C. Macauley, James M. Hilsee, Robert W. Keen, and Joseph Kennedy. The framed portrait in the center of the image is of…
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.
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Albert Parsons (1848-1887)
Albert Parsons, a printer and member of the Knights of Labor, was one of several men sentenced to death on thin evidence for playing a role in the 1886 Haymarket Affair. When Parsons learned that Terence Powderly had distanced the Knights of Labor…
Proceedings of the Knights of Labor General Assembly, Sept. 6-10, 1881
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Archbishop Michael Corrigan
Michael Corrigan (1839-1902) was Archbishop of New York from 1885 until his death. This portrait is from a memorial mass card.
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Frederick Turner, n.d.
Frederick Turner (1846-?) was born in England, and emigrated to the U.S. at age 10. He learned the trade of goldbeating, and in 1873, he organized the goldbeaters of Philadelphia into a local assembly of the Knights of Labor. Throughout the 1880s,…