DescriptionFirst annual picnic of the "Knights of Labor" (9090170436).jpg
Title: First annual picnic of the "Knights of Labor" - more fun for the spectators than for the performers / J. Keppler. <a href="https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2012647217/" rel="nofollow">www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2012647217/</a>
Creator(s): Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand, 1838-1894, artist
Date Created/Published: N.Y. : Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1882 June 21.
Medium: 1 print : chromolithograph.
Summary: Print shows Jay Gould, William H. Vanderbilt, Cyrus Field, Russell Sage, and John Roach riding in a carriage past a crowd of laborers labeled "Knights of Labor" and "Pittsburg Free Strikers" who are watching a man labeled "Workingman" trying to climb a "Greased" pole carrying a child on his back and with a woman and child hanging from his belt. The pole is greased with "Monopoly Grease", at top are "Higher Wages, Bread, Tobacco, Wine, [and] Ham". The view from the pole shows factories in the middle distance and the "Roach Monopolist Ship Builder" facility in the background.
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-28487 (digital file from original print)
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
Call Number: Illus. in AP101.P7 1882 (Case X) [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print" rel="nofollow">hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print</a>
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Title from item.
Illus. from Puck, v. 11, no. 276, (1882 June 21), centerfold.
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