42nd Separate Company of Niagara Falls, stationed in Tonawandas to break lumber strike, photos (c.1892-1893)

42nd Separate Company of Niagara Falls, stationed in Tonawandas to break lumber strike, photos (c.1892-1893).jpg

This company, formed in 1885 at the establishment of the Niagara Falls State Reservation, came out to the Tonawandas twice to quell lumber labor troubles (June of 1892 and 1893). The photo may have been taken during the 1893 assignment, as this was the longer deployment, and they appear ready for a little comic relief in the first photo. Learn more about these visits in this excerpt of a 2005 thesis.

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