John Mitchell the Miners Champion 1903 solo xmas tree fifteen blocks of a frontier

fifteen blocks of a frontier boomtown rendered as inferno on the eve of the cholera summer that would compound the ruin

the kind of likeness commissioned when a surname had already become an industry

when the outcome of the wager was at last no longer in doubt

rendered in the gaunt geometry of a man who had read too many casualty lists

John Mitchell the Miners Champion 1903 solo xmas tree fifteen blocks of a frontierJohn Mitchell the Miners Champion 1903 a tribute portrait to the United Mine Workers president who faced down the anthracite coal operators, rendered in the sober reverence reserved for labor's saints in an age when industrial confidence still believed it could be answered. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the