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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Preamble of the Constitution of the Knights of Labor, 1885
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Robert Schilling (1843-1922)
<a href="http://archives.lib.cua.edu/findingaid/powderly.cfm" target="_blank">Terence Vincent Powderly Manuscript Collection</a> Box 106, Item 42
1884
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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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1887
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Constitution of KoL Local Assembly No. 1446, 1880
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<a href="http://archives.lib.cua.edu/findingaid/powderly.cfm" target="_blank">Terence Vincent Powderly Manuscript Collection</a> Box 106, Item 6
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 Uriah Stephens, the founder of the Knights of Labor, who died in 1882.
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1886
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'Adelphon Kruptos' ritual book, ca. 1880
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Knights of Labor
<a href="http://archives.lib.cua.edu/findingaid/powderly.cfm" target="_blank">Terence Vincent Powderly Manuscript Collection</a> Box 117, Folder 1
ca. 1880
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Pastoral Letter of the Third Plenary Council, 1884
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The Archbishops and Bishops of the United States
Third Plenary Council of Baltimore
<em>The National Pastorals of the American Hierarchy</em>, ed. Peter Guilday, (Westminster, Maryland: Newman Press, 1954), pp. 226-227, 258-259, 262-263.
1884
American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives
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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Letter to Terence Powderly, September 29, 1878
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James W. Bishop
<a href="http://archives.lib.cua.edu/findingaid/powderly.cfm" target="_blank">Terence Vincent Powderly Manuscript Collection</a> Box 2, Folder 5
1878
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Letter to Terence V. Powderly, April 3, 1882
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Cornelius Cotter
<a href="http://archives.lib.cua.edu/findingaid/powderly.cfm" target="_blank">Terence Vincent Powderly Manuscript Collection</a> Box 5, Folder 9
1882
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