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Envelope reads, "Kelly's army." Negative shows men milling around a campsite. Kelley's army was a force of around 1,500 unemployed migratory farm laborers and unskilled workers who were recruited by 'General' Charles T. Kelley during a depression in 1914 and was an aftermath of the Wheatland Riot. "Twenty years earlier Kelley had earned his title by leading a California detachment (which included Jack London) of Coxey's Army that had marched on Washington, D.C., to present a 'petition in boots' to Congress. Similarly, in 1914 Kelley's followers had marched on Sacramento to demand legislative aid and were met by a brigade of some 800 deputized citizens armed with pick handles. The 'army' was driven from the capital grounds and the city." from--"A Companion to California" by James D. Hart.