Members of the Colorado National Guard in uniform pose on railroad tracks in the Cripple Creek mining district in Teller County, Colorado, during the Western Federation of Miners labor strike. Colonel Verdeckberg, Milt Unfinger [?], [General] Sherman Bell, Gen. Overmeyer, and Gen. John Chase are identified. Probably William D. "Big Bill" Haywood, the Secretary-Treasurer of the W.F.M. (Western Federation of Miners), stands in work clothes and suspenders beside the National Guardsmen.
Accession number: H.819.1; History Colorado.; Mounted on verso of album page CHS.X9293.; Photographic prints are included in: Col. Edward Verdeckberg album.; Title and attribution inked on original and reproduced in photographic print.; R7200092944
Physical Description
1 photographic print ; 12 x 17 cm. (4 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.) mounted on album page 16 x 25 cm. (6 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.)
Colorado. National Guard--People--Colorado--1900-1910.; Western Federation of Miners--People--1900-1910.; Cripple Creek Strike, Cripple Creek, Colo., 1903-1904.; Teller County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Militia--Colorado--Teller County--1900-1910.; Miners' strikes--Colorado--Teller County--1900-1910.; Miners' unions--Colorado--Teller County--1900-1910.; Haywood, Big Bill, 1869-1928.; Verdeckberg, Edward.
