![The Molly Maguires and The Detectives [Autographed by Robert A. Pinkerton]. Allan Pinkerton, 1819–1884, Robert Allan Pinkerton, 1848–1907, Francis “Frank” Horatio Stott, 1832–1900.](/images/noimage-req.png)
The Molly Maguires and The Detectives [Autographed by Robert A. Pinkerton].
The Molly Maguires and The Detectives reports the true story of the Irish-American supposed criminal and terrorist secret society of the same name. The book... Read More
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![London Trades’ Council. Great Reform Demonstration Held in Hyde Park, on Monday, July 21st, 1884 [broadside caption title]. Amalgamated Association of Pressmen, London Society of Compositors, Printing Machine Managers' Trade Society.](/pictures/thumb/3725422_1.jpg?v=1536179344)
London Trades’ Council. Great Reform Demonstration Held in Hyde Park, on Monday, July 21st, 1884 [broadside caption title].
On July 21, 1884 a parade and radical British labor “Reform Demonstration” was held under the auspices of the London Trades’ Council in that city’s... Read More
C.1880 Uncle Sam Satirical “Greenback” Political Bank Note.
Political memorabilia satirizing the “Greenback” Party likely issued during the U.S. Presidential election of 1880. The small, printed leaf imitates the shape and design of... Read More
C.1880 Uncle Sam Satirical “Greenback” Political Bank Note.
Political memorabilia satirizing the “Greenback” Party likely issued during the U.S. Presidential election of 1880. The small, printed leaf imitates the shape and design of... Read More
![[1939–1940 Social Security Pamphlet Collection]. Social Security Board Federal Security Agency.](/pictures/thumb/3727673_1.jpg?v=1538000966)
[1939–1940 Social Security Pamphlet Collection].
The Social Security Act of 1935 was amended in 1939 to provide workers with dependents benefits and survivors benefits. These five pamphlets issued by the... Read More
Proceedings of the Second National Conference on the Problems of the Negro and Negro Youth…
Proceedings of a Depression-era conference examining the role of the federal government to help African Americans in such areas as social and economic security, education... Read More
Memorial Edition of The Life of Richard Trevithick [cover title].
Memorial biography of early 19th century British railroad and mining engineer, Richard Trevithick (1771–1833). The biography was published under the auspices of the Richard Trevithick... Read More
Was It Murder? The Truth About Centralia.
Re-examination of the murder convictions resulting from the Centralia Massacre, also known as the Armistice Day Riot, which took place in Centralia, Washington on November... Read More
The Negro Worker in Minnesota. A Report to Governor Edward J. Thye of Minnesota by The Governor’s Interracial Commission.
Report from a special interracial commission exploring why industrial Minnesota denies employment to black workers and how this might impact the post-World War II state... Read More
An Appeal from the Cotton Operatives of Preston. Ten Per Cent. Reduction of Wages [opening lines of broadside].
4,000 workers on strike! Would you take a 10% pay-cut? Did you just say Karl Marx? Charles Dickens? Labor and Capital struggle in Britain’s cotton... Read More
The Negro American Artisan.
One of a series of studies of “so-called Negro problems” co-edited by African-American sociologist and academic W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963) and his student, Augustus Granville... Read More
Forced Labor in the United States.
Comprehensive study of prisons in America specific to all aspects of convict labor; polemical and written as an expose to the many brutalities committed (“The... Read More
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