The Haymarket Riot and Trial: Selected Images

The explosion, the riot, the aftermath (May 4, 1886)(Pictorial West, 1886)
                                                                  
The Haymarket Riot
The Riot at McCormick's Reaper Works in Chicago (May 3, 1886)
Haymarket rally (before explosion)
 Haymarket Riot (5/15 Harper's Weekly depiction)
Injured officers at Desplaines St. Station
Patrolman Mathias J. Degan, riot victim
Haymarket Square (1892 photo--Chicago Historical Society)
The Anarchists
"The Anarchists of Chicago" by Walter Crane
Prisoners Receiving Visitors (Wisconsin Historical Society)
Lucy Parsons
Trial Images
Sketch of crowded courtroom
Parsons surrenders (6/21/1886)
Judge Joseph E. Gary
Prosecutor Julius S. Grinnell
Cook County Criminal Court Building
Mayor Carter Harrison (defense witness)
Chief Inspector John Bonfield (prosecution witness)
 Photo of unexploded lead globe bomb (people's exhibit 129A)
Photo of bomb split at middle (people's exhibit 129B)

Execution & Epilogue
Portraits of seven condemned anarchists (Frank Leslie's Illustrated)
Suicide of Lingg (Frank Leslie's Illustrated)
Execution Day (Reading of Warrant to Hanging)
The execution ("The Law is Vindicated")
Governor John P. Altgeld
The Haymarket Martyrs' Monument

SOME OF THE IMAGES ABOVE ARE FOUND IN THE COLLECTION
 OF THE CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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