Robert Gumpert Harlan County Photographs Collection, 1974
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Scope and Contents
In 1974 Los Angeles-based photographer Robert Gumpert traveled to Harlan County, KY to document the Brookside Coal strike (1973-74). His images capture the tension of the strike, confrontations between miners and Eastover Mine security forces, meetings of the “Brookside Women” (wives of miners who were active in the strike), as well as miners and their families, non-union workers, and residents of the county.