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The Great railway strikes--scenes in and about Chicago / from sketches by G.A. Coffin. – Antique Wall Art

The Great railway strikes--scenes in and about Chicago / from sketches by G.A. Coffin., [1894 July] — historic print
The Great railway strikes--scenes in and about Chicago / from sketches by G.A. Coffin., [1894 July]. Historic print from the Chicago collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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The six prints in this set were made from sketches by G.A. Coffin and ran in *Harper's Weekly* on July 14, 1894, on page 657. They date to the Pullman Strike, which began as a wage dispute at the Pullman railcar works on Chicago's South Side and grew into a national boycott of trains that carried Pullman cars. By early July, federal troops had arrived in the city, and the magazine's artists were recording the disorder in its streets and rail yards. Because the images were drawn for a weekly and reproduced by a photomechanical process, they show how readers across the country followed the strike through pictures as well as newspaper accounts.

Created / published[1894 July]
Medium6 photomechanical prints.
GenrePeriodical illustrations 1890-1900.Photomechanical prints 1890-1900.
NotesIllus. in: Harper's weekly, 1894 July 14, p. 657.
SubjectsRailroad strikes--Illinois--Chicago--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,012 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-167482

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