Pinkerton (detective agency)
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Pinkerton is an American private investigation agency and security company established around 1850 in the United States by Scottish-born American cooper Allan Pinkerton and Chicago attorney Edward Ruc
Pinkerton guards escort strikebreakers in Buchtel, Ohio, 1884
Frick's letter describing the plans and munitions that will be on the barges when the Pinkertons arrive to confront the strikers in Homestead
Allan Pinkerton
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Allan Pinkerton was a Scottish-American detective, spy, abolitionist, and cooper best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in the United States and his claim to have obstructed t
Pinkerton (detective agency)
…Pinkerton is an American private investigation agency and security company established around 1850 in the United States by Scottish-born American cooper Allan Pinkerton and Chicago attorney Edward Rucker as the North-Western Police Agency, which later became Pinkerton & Co. and finally the Pinkerton National Detective…
c. 1861
Pinkerton on horseback on the Antietam Battlefield in 1862
Pinkerton (left) with Abraham Lincoln and Major General John A. McClernand
Portrait of Allan Pinkerton from Harper's Weekly, 1884