Title:
Kelly's Army [picture].
Creator:
Rogers, Edward A. "Doc," 1873-1960.
Subject:
Labor movement - United States - History - Pictorial works.
Unemployment - United
States - Protest movements - Pictorial works.
Kelly, Charles T. - Portraits.
Vollmer, August, 1876-1955 - Portraits.
Petersen,
Walter J. - Portraits.
Carey, Ed - Portraits.
Oakland (Calif.). Police Dept. - History -
Pictorial works.
Emeryville (Calif.). Police Dept. - History - Pictorial works.
Description:
Title from container. From the Joseph R. Knowland collection at the Oakland History
Room, Oakland Public Library. Kelly's Army was "an army of unemployed that was
organized in San Francisco in 1914, an offshoot from the I.W.W." - index card. The
caption for the photograph as published in the Oakland Tribune, March 5, 1914 reads:
"In the center group are, left to right, Chief of Police August Vollmer of Berkeley,
Deputy Sheriff Jack Collier, Marshal Ed Carey of Emeryville, Chief of Police W. J. Petersen of
Oakland (delivering the order), police Sergeant Schroeder, police Captain Thorwald Brown,
police Captain Charles Bock and "General" (Charles T.) Kelly."
Marshal Ed Carey would later become a leading target of Earl R. Warren's campaign to clean up
corruption in Emeryville. Number in collection : 106.
Publisher:
Oakland Public Library
Contributor:
The Oakland Tribune (Oakland, Calif.)
Date:
1914 Mar 5
Type:
image
Format:
1 photograph : negative, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm.
Identifier:
copl_023
Knowland Neg. 106
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Oakland (Calif.) - History - Pictorial works.
Rights:
public domain
Material is in the public domain. No restrictions on use.