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Haymarket Affair collection, 1872-1901

Title: Haymarket Affaircollection 1872-1901

The bulk of the collection consists of the papers ofIllinois State's Attorney Julius S. Grinnell, who led the prosecution in theHaymarket trial in 1886-1887. These include trial evidence, notes and drafts oflegal briefs, personal papers, and printed ephemera. The collection alsoincludes a few items that were added to Grinnell's papers in the 1950s-60s bycollector Frederick B. Adams. Trial evidence is chiefly in German, and consistsof manuscripts, correspondence, leaflets, and other items seized from theoffices of the , a publication of theInternational Working People's Association, with which many of the defendantswere involved. The manuscripts are chiefly holograph drafts of editorials byAugust Spies and Michael Schwab; much of the correspondence is to Spies,including several letters from Johann Most, editor of the New York paper . The evidencealso includes other socialist and anarchist newspapers, as well as fragments ofthe bomb that exploded in Haymarket Square. Papers of the State's Attorney'sOffice include Grinnell's notes and drafts of legal briefs prepared for thetrial and for the defense's appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court in 1887. Theseinclude a draft letter from a police spy to Lucy Parsons, Albert Parsons'swife. Also present are personal papers of Grinnell: most relate directly to thetrial while others document his later career. The collection also containsprinted ephemera of the socialist and anarchist movements, including a numberof items relating specifically to the Haymarket affair. Among these are cabinetcard photographs of six of the eight convicted men. Arbeiter-Zeitung Die Freiheit

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 8 (incl. 2 oversize boxes); Other Storage Formats: 2 broadsides, 1 art storage item; Linear Feet: 7.05

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