Rare! CIVIL War Abraham Lincoln's Armed Pinkerton Men Photo

  
CIVIL WAR - ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S ARMED PINKERTON MEN PHOTO. ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S ARMED PINKERTON MEN POSE FOR A GROUP PHOTO WITH MINORITY. PINKERTON MEN AMONG THE RANKS THAT INCLUDE SEVERAL NATIVE AMERICANS. The Pinkerton Agency began to hire women and minorities shortly after its founding in 1850 because they were useful as spies, a practice uncommon at the time.

Among the business's early operations was to safely deliver the newly elected President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, to Washington, D. In light of an assassination threat.

Pinkerton is a private security guard and detective agency 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. At the height of its power from the 1870s to the 1890s, it was the largest private law enforcement organization in the world. Pinkerton became famous when he claimed to have foiled the Baltimore Plot to assassinate President- elect Abraham Lincoln in 1861. Lincoln later hired Pinkerton agents to conduct espionage against the Confederacy and act as his personal security during the American Civil War.

In the 1850s, Allan Pinkerton, a Scottish immigrant, met Chicago attorney Edward Rucker in a local Masonic Hall. The two men formed the North-Western Police Agency, later known as the Pinkerton Agency. Pinkerton used his skills in espionage to attract clients and begin growing the agency.

In February 1855, Allan Pinkerton, after consulting with six midwestern railroads, created such an agency in Chicago. The Pinkerton Agency began to hire women and minorities shortly after its founding because they were useful as spies, a practice uncommon at the time. Pinkerton detective Kate Warne was assigned and successfully delivered Lincoln to the U.

Capital city through a series of disguises and related tactics that required her to stay awake throughout the entire long journey. As a result of the public notoriety of this success, the business adopted an open eye as its logo and the slogan, We never sleep. Allan Pinkerton around this time also served in the "Secret Service" intelligence division of what was then known as the U. These actions preceded and laid the groundwork for the establishment of the United States Secret Service, which is tasked with serving current and former U. Presidents' security to this day. The official Secret Service was founded on July 5, 1865, less than three months after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. MOUNT'S DIMENSIONS: 5 1/2" x 6 5/8". SHARP FOCUS WITH VERY GOOD CONTRAST. THIS IS NOT A COPY OR A REPRODUCTION.