Great Battle of Homestead: Defeat and Capture of the Pinkerton Invaders, July 1892 huge map of America and the American line wheeling

and the American line wheeling in pursuit

A fraternal chromolithograph thick with regalia and allegory — chains

within months

rendered in the sober engraved manner reserved for men whose weapon was the lectern rather than the rifle

Great Battle of Homestead: Defeat and Capture of the Pinkerton Invaders, July 1892 huge map of America and the American line wheelingGreat Battle of Homestead: Defeat and Capture of the Pinkerton Invaders, July 1892 a partisan broadside from the Monongahela, where Carnegie's locked out steelworkers met barge borne Pinkertons with rifles and improvised cannon. The sheet renders labor's brief, bloody victory before the militia arrived to undo it. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,