Historic photos of the Ludlow massacre

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Striking coal miners and family at Forbes Camp, Las Animas County, Colorado during the UMW labor strike against CF&I. Shows tents destroyed by the National Guard; man on left is Joe Zanatell.

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Mining camp in Forbes (Las Animas County), Colorado shows: rows of miner's cabins, and ore pit carts on tracks.

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Hundreds of mourners view the coffins of Ludlow Massacre victims of the UMW labor strike against CF&I, Trinidad, Las Animas County, Colorado. A priest stands on the church steps; "Uni Trindoue Deo" is carved above the entrance.

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Coal miners prepare to confront the federal troops during the UMW labor strike against CF&I, in Trinidad, Las Animas County, Colorado. They hold rifles, with pistols in their ammunition belts, and wear kerchiefs in support of the strike.

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Members of the Colorado National Guard, called in to suppress the miners' strike against CF&I, pose with their rifles drawn at the workers' destroyed camp near Ludlow in Las Animas County. The photo is from 1914.

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Funeral procession for Ludlow Massacre victims of the UMW labor strike against CF&I, Trinidad, Las Animas County, Colorado. Shows hundreds of mourners in front of the Catholic Church to view the coffins. Sign on pole reads: "Alley A".

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A member of the Colorado National Guard sits in a log reinforced bunker and fires his tripod mounted machine gun against UMW strikers near Ludlow (Las Animas County), Colorado. The gun uses an ammunition belt; a box for ammunition, blankets and a package of pipe tobacco are near the gun. The soldier wears a broad brimmed hat. The members of the UMW were on strike against CF & I.

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Hundreds of coal miners march in a funeral procession for the Ludlow Massacre victims of the UMW labor strike against the CF&I, North Commercial Street, Trinidad, Las Animas County, Colorado. Business signs read: "The Pen Shoe Co.", and "Gerar[?]."

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Coal miners marched into Trinidad from Ludlow to confront the federal troops during the UMW labor strike against CF&I, Las Animas County, Colorado. Shows men, with rifles, boys, and tents in camp San Rafael.

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View of the tent city and the people of Ludlow, Colorado in Las Animas County, the site of the coal strikes and the subsequent massacre. Laundry hangs from the clothesline in the foreground.

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Women and men supporters of the UMW Ludlow strike against CF&I march to free Mother Jones from prison, Commercial Street, Trinidad, Las Animas County, Colorado. One man holds a sign that reads: "We Furnish the Sheriff with a Nursing Bottle". A sign on a storefront reads: "Manhattan Cafe".

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Colorado National Guard troops, called in to suppress a coal strike, pose on railroad tracks with weapons and supplies in front of a Colorado & Southern boxcar, Ludlow, Las Animas County, Colorado.

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Portrait of women and men assisting UMWA coal miners (and families) striking against CF&I in Ludlow, Las Animas County, Colorado. Outfits include print dresses and aprons; one woman holds a baby.

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A girl wears a striped dress, high-button shoes, and holds a doll while she poses by a window with lace curtains. She is the child of a UMWA coal miner on strike against CF&I, in Ludlow, Las Animas County, Colorado.

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Miners on strike and members of the Colorado National Guard, called in to suppress the UMW strike against CF&I, stand near a Colorado & Southern Railway (C&S) boxcar and hold an American flag near Ludlow, Las Animas County, Colorado.

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A man enters an underground shelter at the UMW camp for coal miners on strike against CF&I in Forbes, Las Animas County, Colorado, in which women and children died during a fire set by the Colorado National Guard.

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UMWA coal miners on strike against CF&I pose in a tent near the Mt. San Raphael Hospital in Trinidad (Las Animas County), Colorado. The men wear aprons and stand by an ornate cast iron stove. One holds a knife and sharpening rod; the other checks a coffee pot.

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A distraught man stands among the remains of the tent colony of Ludlow, destroyed by fire after the Ludlow Massacre (result of the coal strikes) in Ludlow, Colorado in Las Animas County. The remains include tent frames, bed boxsprings, iron headboards, furniture frames, and stoves.

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K. J. Linderfelt, a member of the Colorado National Guard called in to suppress the UMW strike against CF&I, poses on horseback near Ludlow, Las Animas County, Colorado.

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Coal miners, a boy, a teenager, and a young girl stand and eat slices of bread near the remnants of the tent colony destroyed in the Ludlow Massacre during the U.M.W. strike against C.F. & I. in Ludlow (Las Animas County), Colorado. Wood, pieces of canvas, boxes, metal tubs and rubble cover the ground. A suitcase is near the children. The men wear hats, some wear overcoats, the children wear hats and coats.

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Lawson [?], a coal miner on strike against CF&I in Ludlow, Las Animas County, Colorado, hoists a barbed-wire wrapped fencepost with a pulley in the UMW tent colony, by boys. A water tower and shed are in the background.

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UMWA coal miners on strike against CF&I in Ludlow, Las Animas County, Colorado, walk and carry a flag with a cross; cars are by a building with sign: "Ludlow Home Saloon."

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Members of the Colorado National Guard, called in to suppress the UMW strike against CF&I, pose with their rifles drawn in the destroyed miners' camp near Ludlow, Las Animas County, Colorado.

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Members of the Colorado National Guard, called in to suppress the UMW strike against CF&I, are on top of a full ore car with their guns drawn near Ludlow, Las Animas County, Colorado. Boxcars from the Colorado & Southern Railway and the Northern Pacific Railway are nearby.

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Men, a girl, and a baby are at the UMW camp for coal miners on strike against CF&I in Ludlow, Las Animas County, Colorado, by canvas tents.

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Interior view of a crumbling facade of a commercial building located in the ghost town of Ludlow, Las Animas County, Colo. The rough stone, single wall ruin is one of a number of similar buildings remaining at the site. In April 1914, Ludlow, Colo. was the location for one of the bloodiest episodes in American labor history known as the Ludlow Massacre.

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Members of the Colorado National Guard, called in to suppress the UMWA strike against CF&I, pose outdoors with a civilian near the Ludlow Home Saloon in Ludlow, Las Animas County, Colorado. They wear ammunition belts with holsters.

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Members of the Colorado National Guard, who were called in to suppress the UMWA strike against CF&I, pose with rifles near Ludlow Station in Ludlow, Las Animas County, Colorado. Boxcars that read: "C&S" are on the Colorado and Southern tracks nearby.

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