Pittsburgh Strike of 1877 Riot Papers on Microfilm
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Scope and Contents
Microfilmed newspaper clippings from the Pittsburgh Strike of 1877.
Dates
- 1877
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Conditions Governing Access
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Conditions Governing Use
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Biographical / Historical
Pittsburgh, PA was at the center of a working-class protest that rocked the United States in 1877. Railroads were the most powerful companies at this time in history. In order to protect profits, railroads reduced workers wages by about ten percent and reduced their workforce. On July 16, a strike started in Martinsburg, West Virginia, and spread from St. Louis and Chicago to New York and Baltimore - Pittsburgh joined in on July 19. The rest of the city's working-class, newspapers and most government employees sympathized with the strikers. This is a collection of accounts of the strike.
Extent
0.22 cubic feet
Abstract
Microfilmed newspaper clippings from the Pittsburgh Strike of 1877.
Quantity:
2 microfilm reels
Forms of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts), microfilm.
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives 227 Ives Hall Tower Road Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheelref@cornell.edu https://catherwood.library.cornell.edu/kheel/
- Compiled by:
- Kheel Staff, May 02, 2014
- EAD encoding:
- Randall Miles, November 01, 2016
- Title
- Pittsburgh Strike of 1877 Riot Papers on Microfilm
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- November 01, 2016
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository