You may go directly to the collection, Chicago Anarchists on Trial: Evidence from the Haymarket Affair, 1886-1887, in American Memory.

Chicago Anarchists on Trial: Evidence from the Haymarket Affair, 1886-1887, presents original manuscripts, broadsides, photographs, prints and artifacts regarding the Haymarket Affair, an 1886 conflict between labor protestors and members of the Chicago police force. Materials document the events leading up to the May 1886 riot, the arrest and trial of those accused of throwing a bomb that killed several police officers, and the appeal process for those convicted of the bombing including the eventual pardon of those convicted. This collection is held by the Chicago Historical Society.

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Haymarket Affair Chronology
The Dramas of Haymarket
Autobiographies of Two Defendants

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Development of the Industrial United States — 1876-1915

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"America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894-1915
Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904
American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940

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