John Peter Altgeld correspondence, 1893-1897.

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John Peter Altgeld correspondence, 1893-1897.

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Correspondence mainly concerns child labor, sweatshops, falling prices, tenements, smallpox, layoffs, unemployment, unions, federal intervention in strikes, anarchists, pardons, Haymarket rioters, Pullman and Lemont strikes, poor farms, penal reform, lynch laws, coal industry, horse races, World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago, Mexican land deals, Texas land titles, "pleasure" highways, and gold or silver reserves. Other topics include prizefighting, lumpyjaw, the Democratic Party, Catholic orphanages, Sunday school services in prisons, religious rights of Spiritualists, competition of convict labor with free enterprise, Copperas Creek, the German-American Dental College, crematories, and marking graves of Illinois soldiers buried in Southern battlefields. Some incoming correspondence is in German. File also includes a partial listing of appointments made by the Governor.

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