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Gallagher, Mary E. (Mary Eleanora) Photographs relating to American socialism and labor from the Gallagher collection.
BANC PIC 1955.005--PICLOCAL
Collection Overview

Title:

Photographs relating to American socialism and labor from the Gallagher collection

Creator/Contributor:

Gallagher, Mary E. (Mary Eleanora), 1883-1966, creator

Abstract:

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.

Date:

ca. 1886-ca. 1940 (issued)

Subject:

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Socialism
Syndicalism -- United States
Riots -- California -- San Pedro -- Photographs
Socialists -- California -- Portraits
Syndicalisme -- États-Unis
Riots
Socialism
Socialists
Syndicalism
California
California -- Los Angeles -- San Pedro
United States
Industrial Workers of the World -- Pictorial works
Industrial Workers of the World.
Robson, Douglas -- 1888-1948 -- Portraits
Haywood, Big Bill -- 1869-1928 -- Portraits
Haywood, Big Bill -- 1869-1928

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Photographers unknown.
Includes a metal plate from the casket of George S. Holmes.
Transferred from Mary E. Gallagher's Collection of material relating to the I.W.W. and various labor and Socialist leaders (BANC MSS C-R 90).

Type:

graphic
Photographs.
Pictorial works.
Portraits.
Postcards.
Tintypes.

Physical Description:

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

Language:

English

Identifier:

BANC PIC 1955.005--PICLOCAL

Origin:

United States

Related Item:

Collection of material relating to the I.W.W. and various labor and Socialist leaders : Gallagher, Mary E. (Mary Eleanora), : 1883-1966