The strike at East St. Louis--firing into the crowd / drawn by T. de Thulstrup. – Vintage Wall Art
![The strike at East St. Louis--firing into the crowd / drawn by T. de Thulstrup., [1886] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/3a/3a4891609ad7-L.webp)
(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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A window into the past: The strike at East St. Louis--firing into the crowd / drawn by T. de Thulstrup., preserved in this antique engraving. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The strike at East St. Louis--firing into the crowd / drawn by T. de Thulstrup.
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This wood engraving shows a confrontation in East St. Louis, Illinois, where armed men fired into a crowd during a railroad strike. Thure de Thulstrup, a Swedish-born illustrator who worked for Harper's Weekly, drew the scene, and the magazine ran it across two pages in its April 17, 1886 issue. The year 1886 was a period of intense labor unrest in the United States, and rail towns like East St. Louis, a busy freight hub on the Mississippi, often became flashpoints when strikers clashed with company men and local authorities. The composition, with its tightly packed crowd and gunfire, shows how illustrated weeklies turned such labor conflicts into dramatic public news.
| Created / published | [1886] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Genre | Periodical illustrations 1880-1890.Wood engravings 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1886 April 17, p. 248-249. |
| Subjects | Railroad strikes--Illinois--East Saint Louis--1880-1890. Riot control--Illinois--East Saint Louis--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 999 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-169722 |
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