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Rev. William Weston Patton
Douglas Club
Lakeside Club
Chicago Homeopathic College
St. Louis Browns of 1884
Michael J. Schaack
Inspector Bonfield
Haverly's Theatre
Haymarket Riot
Statue of Robert de La Salle
Union League Club of Chicago
Washington Park Club
New Chamber of Commerce
The Chicago Riot book cover
Standard Club
Union Club
Dr. N. S. Davis
The execution
August Spies
Spies addressing the strikers
Farragut Boat Club
Indiana Club
Kenwood Club
LaSalle Club
First depot of Galena & Chicago Union Railroad
Niña Stuart van Zandt Spies
Washington Park clubhouse
Farwell's Building
Chief Ebersold
August Spies
A. R. Parsons
Haymarket Meeting
Joseph Medill
George F. Root
Homestead of Robert R. Clark
Lake View House
Hon. Joseph E. Gary
Calumet Club
Chicago Club
Illinois Club
Rev. William Weston Patton
Image | 1910 |
Picture Chicago
From text: "Another whose work stands out conspicuously is the Rev. W. W. Patton, D.D., of the First Congregational Church. Dr. Patton was an uncompromising Abolitionist." Photograph is undated but appears to be from the 1880s.
Douglas Club
Image | 1888 |
Picture Chicago
From text: "Organized in April, 1885, the Douglas Club has its quarters at 3518 Ellis Avenue."
Lakeside Club
Image | 1888 |
Picture Chicago
From text: ""The Lakeside Club was organized in 1884, for the purpose of promoting social intercourse between its members and their families. Two houses were taken at the corner of Wabash Avenue and Thirtieth Street, and here the Club remained until 1888, when the new Club house on Indiana Avenue (between Thirty-first and Thirty-second Streets) was opened with a grand New Ye...
Chicago Homeopathic College
Image | 1883 |
Picture Chicago
From text: "The Chicago Homeopathic Medical College, situated on the corner of Wood and York streets, directly opposite the great Cook County Hospital, is one of the most elegant and commodious educational edifices in the city. It is generally conceded to be the largest and best equipped homeopathic building in this country."
St. Louis Browns of 1884
Image | 1884 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "The St. Louis Browns of 1884--the first team ever managed by Comiskey. Players' names, left to right, standing: Strief, McGinnis, O'Neill, Quest, Comiskey, W. Gleason, Nicol
Michael J. Schaack
Image | 1889 |
Picture Chicago
Frontispiece, illustrating the book's author "Michael J. Schaack, Captain of Police."
Inspector Bonfield
Image | 1886 |
Picture Chicago
Inspector John Bonfield was present at the Haymarket on May 4, 1886. He marched 176 officers to the scene of the gathering there and ordered the crowd to disperse, after which events turned violent. (Source: Encyclopedia of Chicago.)
Haverly's Theatre
Image | 1883 |
Picture Chicago
From text: "The theatre was a surprise to every one, even in Chicago, where celerity is a prevailing habit and Time has in most things been knocked out of time. The first stone was turned upon the ground on the 12th of June, 1881. Ninety days later--on the 12th of September--the new theater, completed at every point, was thrown open to the public. If the world can offer a...
Haymarket Riot
Image | 1889 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "The Haymarket Riot: The Explosion and the Conflict."
Statue of Robert de La Salle
Image | 1889 |
Picture Chicago
Frontispiece of book
Union League Club of Chicago
Image | 1888 |
Picture Chicago
From text: "The purposes of the Union League Club of Chicago (which was incorporated in 1879 …) are to encourage and promote by moral, social and political influence, unconditional loyalty to the Federal Government, and to defend and protect the integrity and prosperity of this Nation
Washington Park Club
Image | 1888 |
Picture Chicago
From text: "The objects of the organization called the Washington Park Club, which was incorporated in 1883, are to promote good fellowship among its members by providing a club house and pleasure grounds for their entertainment where at all times they may meet for social intercourse, and to encourage, by providing the proper facilities, raising, improving, breeding, trainin...
New Chamber of Commerce
Image | 1883 |
Picture Chicago
From text: "The corner-stone of the new Chamber of Commerce was laid with appropriate ceremonies Dec. 13, 1882, and since then the walls of the magnificent building have gone up with marvelous rapidity, but this new temple of trade is on such a grand scale that it will be another year before it is brought to completion and ready for the machinery of commerce."
The Chicago Riot book cover
Image | 1886 |
Picture Chicago
Text on cover: "The Chicago Riot: A record of the Terrible Scenes of May 4, 1886. Chicago and New York: Belford, Clarke & Co., 1886."
Standard Club
Image | 1888 |
Picture Chicago
From text: "The Standard Club was organized in 1869, and chartered February 14th, 1887. The object for which it was formed is the social and mental improvement of its members by social intercourse and by various educational means, to-wit: The establishment and maintenance of a library, a gymnasium, a theater, a lecture and music hall, a reading room, the collection of paint...
Union Club
Image | 1888 |
Picture Chicago
From text: "The Union Club was organized in 1878 … In 1881, the present handsome club house was built. Admirably situated on Washington Place (at the corner of Dearborn Avenue) it attracts the attention of every passer-by by the grace and beauty of its proportions. As you pass through the broad front door, you enter a spacious hall with walls and ceiling of exquisitely car...
Dr. N. S. Davis
Image | 1910 |
Picture Chicago
Image appears to be an enhanced photograph. Image is undated, but appears to have been taken in the 1880s.
The execution
Image | 1889 |
Picture Chicago
Engraving depicts August Spies, Adolph Fischer, George Engel and Albert Parsons standing at the gallows, moments before their execution on Nov. 11, 1887.
August Spies
Image | 1887 |
Picture Chicago
Frontispiece. Handwritten below, "With Compliments A. Spies."
Spies addressing the strikers
Image | 1889 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Spies addressing the strikers at McCormick's." The McCormick's Works factory was located near Blue Island and Western avenues.
Farragut Boat Club
Image | 1888 |
Picture Chicago
From text: "The present club house (at 3016 Lake Park Avenue) was completed in the spring of 1886."
Indiana Club
Image | 1888 |
Picture Chicago
From text: "The Indiana Club was organized in 1883, for the purpose of promoting social intercourse among its members and their families. The Club occupies the premises at 3349 Indiana Avenue, a handsome and commodious two story brick house, furnished throughout with every comfort and luxury. The billiard and pool rooms, the bowling alley and the dressing rooms are on the ...
Kenwood Club
Image | 1888 |
Picture Chicago
From text: "From this meeting resulted the present Kenwood Club, the organization of which was perfected in February, 1884. In June of the same year the Club took possession of the house on Forty-seventh Street, near Lake Avenue, which was formerly the residence of Norman B. Judd, Esq. To this house, a two story and basement frame building, a large addition, 40x75 feet, wa...
LaSalle Club
Image | 1888 |
Picture Chicago
From text: "The LaSalle Club is a political and social organization. All the leading Republican politicians belong to it, and it is the centre of Republican activity in Chicago. … Organized in 1884 … early in 1888 it took possession of the fine building it now occupies, at 252 West Monroe Street, formerly the residence of C. C. Holton, Esq. The house is of marble, three s...
First depot of Galena & Chicago Union Railroad
Image | 1880-1889 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "The first depot of the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad Company (now Chicago & Northwestern Railway). This depot stood at the southwest corner of North Canal and West Kinzie streets. It was built in 1848 and was Chicago's first railroad depot. In 1881 the depot was removed. By courtesy of Chicago Historical Society" From text: "It was a one-story frame building...
Niña Stuart van Zandt Spies
Image | 1887 |
Picture Chicago
Wife of August Vincent Theodore Spies.
Washington Park clubhouse
Image | 1883 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Club-House at Washington Park." From text: "One of the most important and certainly the most aristocratic clubs in the city is the new Washington Park Club. Not only in the turf world, but in the social as well, this institution takes precedence."
Farwell's Building
Image | 1883 |
Picture Chicago
From text: "Within the past year they have moved into their new building, the largest, most extensive, and best arranged for their business in the East or West. … Regarding the architectural beauty of this building, it can be truthfully said to rival any building in Chicago. It is constructed of Philadelphia pressed brick, with stone trimmings, and the architects and contr...
Chief Ebersold
Image | 1886 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Chief of Police Ebersold". Ebersold was Chicago's chief of police at the time of the Haymarket violence, on May 4, 1886.
August Spies
Image | 1886 |
Picture Chicago
From text: "August Spies is a pale-faced, intellectual-looking German, thirty-six years of age. He was born in Hessia and came to this country in 1873. He has been a Socialist all his life, and started a newspaper in support of that cause in 1879. His paper was called the Arbeiter Zeitung, and a sheet was never published which contained matter more revolutionary to the law...
A. R. Parsons
Image | 1886 |
Picture Chicago
From text: A. R. Parsons is a medium sized, slimly built man, with a light mustache. By trade he is a printer. He is well educated, thoroughly posted on Socialism, and a fluent and stirring speaker. Unlike Spies, he is cool and calculating, and in his most rabid and inflammatory speeches weighed every word. He was the editor of the Alarm, an English edition of the Arbei...
Haymarket Meeting
Image | 1889 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "The Haymarket Meeting.--In the Name of the People. I Command You to Disperse."
Joseph Medill
Image | 1910 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Joseph Medill (Owner and Editor of The Chicago Tribune)". Photograph is undated but appears to be from the 1880s.
George F. Root
Image | 1910 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "George F. Root (Composer of "The Battle-Cry of Freedom," and Other Inspired Songs)". Photograph is undated but appears to be from the 1880s.
Homestead of Robert R. Clark
Image | 1910 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Homestead of the late Robert R. Clark (Built in 1859) Intersection Halsted and Clark Streets, Chicago Courtesy of Mrs. B. A. Squire". The house served as a refuge for many Northside residents after the Chicago Fire of 1871. Photograph is undated but possibly taken in the 1880s.
Lake View House
Image | 1910 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "The Lake View House (Permission Mr. James J. Wilson and Chicago Historical Society)". From text: ""There was also a hotel, called the Lake View House, having been opened on July 4, 1854, occupying a site at the northwest corner of what is now designated Grace Street and Sheridan Road. This had been built by James H. Rees and Elisha E. Huntley, and was, without ...
Hon. Joseph E. Gary
Image | 1889 |
Picture Chicago
Judge Gary presided over the trial of the eight anarchists for their alleged involvement in the Haymarket Riot. (Wikipedia entry on Joseph Gary)
Calumet Club
Image | 1888 |
Picture Chicago
Building was located at Michigan Avenue and Twentieth Street.
Chicago Club
Image | 1888 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Chicago Club, Monroe St." From text: "After the fire the present building was erected on Monroe Street, just opposite the Palmer House."
Illinois Club
Image | 1888 |
Picture Chicago
From text: "In 1881, the property which is the present quarters of the Club (154 Ashland Avenue) was purchased."
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