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Park Club

Calumet Club

Chicago Club

Call for the Haymarket Meeting

Revenge! Workingmen, to arms!!!

Hon. Joseph E. Gary

Louis Lingg, the bomb-maker

Conspiracy meeting

Miss Gretchen Spies

Michael Schwab

Samuel Fielden

  • Park Club
    Image | 1888 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "The Park Club had its beginning at a social gathering of the leading gentlemen of South Park early in the spring of 1886. … The selection of its name was the natural sequence of its unrivalled location in the midst of the grand system of parks and boulevards, over whose thousands of acres of lawn and lake its windows look. While the majority of the members of the...
  • Calumet Club
    Image | 1888 | Picture ChicagoBuilding was located at Michigan Avenue and Twentieth Street.
  • Chicago Club
    Image | 1888 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Chicago Club, Monroe St." From text: "After the fire the present building was erected on Monroe Street, just opposite the Palmer House."
  • Call for the Haymarket Meeting
    Image | 1889 | Picture ChicagoText in English and German. Partial transcription: "Attention Workingmen! Great mass-meeting to-night, at 7.30 o'clock at the Haymarket, Randolph St., bet. Desplaines and Halstead. Achtung Arbeiter! Grosse Massen-Versammlung heute Abend, halb 8 Uhr, auf dem Heumarkt, Randolph-Strasse. zwifchen Desplaines u. Halsted-Str."
  • Revenge! Workingmen, to arms!!!
    Image | 1889 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "The famous "Revenge" circular." German title: "Rache! Rache! Arbeiter, zu den Waffen!"
  • Hon. Joseph E. Gary
    Image | 1889 | Picture ChicagoJudge Gary presided over the trial of the eight anarchists for their alleged involvement in the Haymarket Riot. (Wikipedia entry on Joseph Gary)
  • Louis Lingg, the bomb-maker
    Image | 1889 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Louis Lingg, the bomb-maker. From a Photograph taken by the Police."
  • Conspiracy meeting
    Image | 1889 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "The Conspiracy meeting at 54 West Lake Street. Waller reading Engel's 'plan.'"
  • Miss Gretchen Spies
    Image | 1889 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Miss Gretchen Spies: From a Photograph." Sister of anarchist August Spies.
  • Michael Schwab
    Image | 1886 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: Michael Schwab is a German, past thirty-five years of age. He was assistant editor of the Arbeiter Zeitung, and a speaker on all occasions of meetings of Anarchists. He always addressed his countrymen in German.
  • Samuel Fielden
    Image | 1886 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "Samuel Fielden is below the medium height, thick set and muscular. His face is swarthy and covered with a heavy beard. His brow is low, his face dull, and his appearance indicates the predominance of the brute. Unlike any of his associates he is a laboring man. He drove a stone wagon, and worked hard for his daily bread. He was kind to his family, and bore a good...
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