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Color engraving of the Homestead Strike, Harper's Weekly, 1892.
Credit: Image Donated by Corbis - Bettmann
The Homestead Strike of 1892 earned Henry C. Frick national infamy. Frick would never forgive Anderw Carnegie for letting him take the blame for the pitched battle between Pinkerton agents hired by Steel Company and striking steel workers. In this illustration for Harper's Weekly, engraver W.P. Synder showed the defeated Pinkerton agents, escorted by armed union men, leaving their barges after surrendering.