Laborer Gallery

Transcontinental railroad workers attacked by Native Americans

Cheyenne Indians attacking workers building the transcontinental railroad on the Great Plains, 1867.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Communist demonstration broken up by New York police

Communist workers driven from a demonstration in Tompkins Square by mounted police, New York City, 1871.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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