Images Related to the Haymarket Affair On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country, leading to a sensational trial that collimated in four controversial executions, and dealing a blow to the labor movement from which it would take decades to recover. The historical context of Haymarket Affair not only includes the rally, bombing and resulting trial and executions, but a consideration of the rise of the first great labor movement in the wake of the Civil War and the epic twenty-year struggle for the eight-hour workday within the framework of the history of American capitalism and class tensions at the heart of Gilded Age America. (Adapted from James Green, Death in the Haymarket) - How do images from the time period in question and the present portray such a wide-ranging, controversial, and important event? - Further, how are the meanings of images and objects affected when you curate - select and sequence - them?

Advice to so-called American Socialists: "you had better not attack this club". Nast, Thomas, Harper's weekly. Vol. 30, no (February 27, 1886) New York: Harper and Brothers, p. 143: ill.; 13 x 11 cm. Wood engraving.

Riot at McCormick's reaper works: Chicago, May 3, [1887] Morand, Paul J. 1 photographic print: b&w; 7 x 9 in.

Explosion of the bomb at Haymarket Square: Chicago, May 4, [1887] Morand, Paul J. 1 photographic print: b&w; 7 x 9 in.

Battle after the explosion of bomb at Haymarket Square: Chicago, May 4, [1887] Morand, Paul J. 1 photographic print: b&w; 7 x 9 in.

The Anarchist riot in Chicago: a dynamite bomb exploding among the police. de Thulstrup, Thure. Detached from: Harper's weekly. Vol. 30, no (May 15, 1886) New York, N.Y.: Harper and Brothers, 1886.

The Haymarket massacre: the charge of the police after the explosion of the bomb. Williams, True. Illustrated graphic news. Vol. 1, no. 2 (May 15, 1886) Chicago, Ill.: The Graphic news, p. 169: ill.; 41 x 29 cm. Full caption reads: Chicago.-The Haymarket massacre. The charge of the police after the explosion of the bomb. Wood engraving.

"Revenge! Workingmen to Arms!!" Single-page letterpress broadside, May 4, 1886.

The Law vindicated: four of the Chicago anarchists pay the penalty of their crime; scenes in the Cook County Jail at the moment of the execution.Detached from: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper. Vol. 65, no (Nov. 19, 1887) New York, N.Y.: Frank Leslie, 1887.

The Funeral of the anarchists at Chicago, Sunday, November 13th: Captain Black delivering the oration in Waldheim Cemetery. Detached from: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper. Vol. 65, no (Nov. 26, 1887) New York, N.Y.: Frank Leslie, 1887.

Liberty or death. Nast, Thomas, Harper's weekly. Vol. 30, no (June 5, 1886). New York: Harper and Brothers, 1886.

Portraits of the condemned Chicago anarchists. Detached from: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper. Vol. 65, no. 1678, (Nov. 12, 1887). New York, N.Y.: Frank Leslie, 1887.

Affecting interview between Parsons and his little daughter: Fielden in his cell, the sound of the hammer; the condemned Chicago anarchists, view of Cook County Jail guarded by policemen. Detached from: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper. Vol. 65, no (Nov. 12, 1887) New York: Frank Leslie, p. 193: ill.; 39 x 24 cm. Wood engraving.

Haymarket Martyrs’ Monument. Forest Home Cemetery, Cook County, Illinois.

National eight hour law: proclamation / U.S. Grant. United States. President ( :Grant). 1 broadside: ill.; 21 x 25 in. [S.l.: s.n., 1870]. Signed by U.S. Grant, President and Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State. Proclamation reads, "I, U.S. Grant, President of the United States, do hereby direct that from this date no reduction shall be made in the wages paid by the government by the day, to such laborers, workers, & mechanics on account of such reduction of the hours of labor. In testimony whereof, &c., done at the City of Washington, this 19th Day of May, the year of our Lord, 1869 & of the Independence of the United States."

Robert Koehler, The Strike [Der Streik] (1886). Image Description: