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[Denis Kearney, 1847-1907, bust portrait] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Denis Kearney, 1847-1907, bust portrait] — historic photograph
[Denis Kearney, 1847-1907, bust portrait]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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This rare historic photograph captures [Denis Kearney, 1847-1907, bust portrait] in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Denis Kearney, 1847-1907, bust portrait]

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Denis Kearney, the Irish-born labor agitator who led the Workingmen's Party of California, appears here in a bust-length portrait dated to about 1878, the year his movement reached its height. Kearney was a drayman turned orator who rallied San Francisco's unemployed and anti-Chinese workers with fiery speeches delivered on sandlots, and his followers pushed for restrictions on immigration and for an eight-hour workday. The photograph captures the stern, direct look of a man whose rhetoric helped shape California's politics for years afterward.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1878.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,008 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-117716

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