1078691 First annual picnic of the "Knights of Labor" - more fun for the spectators than for the performers, 1882 (colour litho) by Keppler, Joseph (1838-94); Collection of the New-York Historical Society, USA; (add.info.: First annual picnic of the "Knights of Labor" - more fun for the spectators than for the performers. Print shows Jay Gould, William H. Vanderbilt, Cyrus Field, Russell Sage, and John Roach riding in a carriage past a crowd of laborers labeled "Knights of Labor" and "Pittsburg Free Strikers" who are watching a man labeled "Workingman" trying to climb a "Greased" pole carrying a child on his back and with a woman and child hanging from his belt. The pole is greased with "Monopoly Grease", at top are "Higher Wages, Bread, Tobacco, Wine, [and] Ham". The view from the pole shows factories in the middle distance and the "Roach Monopolist Ship Builder" facility in the background. Published in Puck, June 21, 1882. ); 穢 New York Historical Society ; American, out of copyright.